Free Play Stephen Nachmanovitch Quotes

#1. Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.

Donna Lynn Hope

#2. Prokofiev and I never did become friends, probably because Prokofiev was not inclined towards friendly relations in general. He was a hard man and didn't seem interested in anything than himself and his music.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#3. Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#4. Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

Finn Wittrock

#5. Faith is the best ingredient for miracles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Peter Medawar

#7. I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

Dean Ornish

#8. Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Samuel Johnson

#9. My fight to live does not begin now. I have been fighting all my life, I just didn't know it.

Colleen Oakes

#10. Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.

Molly Peacock

#11. Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Daniel Okrent

#12. Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk ... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'

Noam Chomsky