Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson
An American author, philosopher, psychologist, and essayist, he co-authored The Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea. His other popular works include Schrodinger's Cat (a novel) and Wilhelm Reich in Hell (a play).
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 January 1932
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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In a business where you can't dictate price you need to be very good at what you can control, and that's cost,
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The study has to be done. I'm happy to see (DOT) has come around and they've recognized that this is something that should be on the table.
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I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.
variations
I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.
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Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.
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I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.
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Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite.
imagine
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
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In my theater, I'm not trying to change the world.
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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
body
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
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Comparative advantage in the production of many of these requirements therefore lies outside China, with suppliers such as Rio Tinto.
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I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day.
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I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.