Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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Unknown
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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William Shakespeare
I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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William Shakespeare
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
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Marsha Norman
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
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Vincent H. ONeil
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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs - is how the world works. The world isn't logical; it's a song.
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Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.
