I’m worried that the audience is being conditioned. That’s my real fear. Because if they don’t want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it’s only going to get worse. Those of us who don’t want to shoot up and cut and sew, we’re just not going be cast.
We’ve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we’re conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that’s the right thing for society.
The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You’re running out on relays all the time. You’re covering second base. On every pitch, you’re moving.
I think for some reason we’re conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that’s not a necessary.
We’re conditioned in this country to believe that if there’s a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
The fact is, people in some communities have been conditioned to instantly feel safe when they see a police car. Others see one and instantly feel anxiety.
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally ‘appearances,’ the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more ‘material’ and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Actors are almost conditioned to get their director’s approval. ‘I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?’ Actors are infantilized so much.
We’re all conditioned to think we have to get to the top and be the best.
I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.
‘Family Ties’ was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.
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