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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:18 pm
Yes I do! blaugh I like to think I'm good at it too. (I'm in X-men 3 if you've seen that)
If you go back two pages in the pics thread there are a bunch of me from shows I did (including that monologue above.)
Crap! Now I need to think of a quote!
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"Current theories on the creation of the Universe state that, if it was created at all and didn't just start, as it were, unoffi cially, it came into being between ten and twenty thousand million years ago. By the same token the earth itself is generally supposed to be about four and a half thousand million years old.
These dates are incorrect.
Medieval Jewish scholars put the date of the Creation at 3760 B.C. Greek Orthodox theologians put Creation as far back as 5508 B.C.
These suggestions are also incorrect.
Archbishop James Usher (1580-1656) published Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti in 1654, which suggested that the Heaven and the Earth were created in 4004 B.C. One of his aides took the calculation further, and was able to announce triumphantly that the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 A.M., because God liked to get work done early in the morning while he was feeling fresh.
This too was incorrect. By almost a quarter of an hour.
The whole business with the fossilized dinosaur skeletons was a joke the paleontologistshaven't seen yet.
This proves two things:
Firstly, that God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players,* to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infi nite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Secondly, the Earth's a Libra. "
Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman
Okay - I know I promised no more long ones, but this was just too good pass up. If you haven't read the above book yet, you are missing one of the finest pieces of literature EVER.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:29 pm
"Loyalty to a petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul." -- Mark Twain
I have complete confidence in you. That, and I'm a huge Shakespeare fan xp (Julius Caesar is probably my favorite. One must have a favorite, yes?) I'm sure you are very good, although I haven't seen the movie. Is it about aliens?
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:18 pm
An Unsaid Word
She who has the power to call her man
From that estranged intensity
Where his mind forages alone,
Yet keeps her peace and leaves him free,
And when his thoughts to her return
Stands where he left her, still his own,
Knows this the hardest thing to learn.
-Adrienne Rich
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:23 pm
"To the grim poor there need be no por quoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how thw witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so, is he not a devil?" -- Wicked, the book, not the musical.
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:57 pm
Thanks! I love Shakespeare too. Caesar is a great show. Actually when I did my Benedick a buddy of mine did Mark Antony's (Although I can't remember if that from Caesar or Antony and Cleo.)
No the movie was based on the Marvel Comic X men. And to say I was "in it" is rather loose...I was an extra. (Which is a start anyway) thanks for your support though whee
"Carpe Diem"
~Horace
"Carpe Noctem"
~ Gabriel Kaine
Making up for the long ones razz
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:54 pm
That's really cool, though. Extras are good. 3nodding Are you a Hollywood person or a Broadway kind of person?
I've got Antony and Cleopatra. heart It's wonderful. An old, dusty edition someone bought for me at some antique store. I love books like that--used and old and dusty. I went to a costume party as Cleopatra once.
"Carpe mundum." -- Um, dictators?
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:05 pm
Hollywood or Broadway? Ooh...That's hard to say...So far in my career, I've done far more theatre, including musicals (I played Nathan Detroit two years ago in the School Musical) But I don't think I'd have the singing chops to make it on Broadway. I would love to get into film (It pays better for one thing) but I really hate "Hollywood" and all the...falsity and plastic lives that go with it...Wow I managed to spend an entire paragraph NOT answering your question. I think Hollywood is the answer - or goal, but I'd avoid "Hollywood" (If anyone actually gets my rambling there, they get a cookie)
I love old books! They're so much more...romantic than modern tomes...you can't even call today's books "Tomes" really...
"It's not rape! Its surprise sex you didn't know you wanted!"
~One of my friends...can't remember which...
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:29 pm
"Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer." -- Kirby, I think.
Infinitely so. There's just something about a huge old book. It almost holds more promise. At the very least, it seems more personal. What kind of fairy tale could possibly feature a cheap, mass-produced paperback? Old books, all the way.
So yes to making movies, no to Hollywood ideals?
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:37 pm
Warriors,
Warriors we call ourselves.
We fight for splendid virtue,
For high endeavor,
For sublime wisdom,
Therefore
We call ourselves warriors.
~Aunguttara Nikaya
This is the opening quote from the book "The Peaceful Warrior's Way" by Dan Millman. It's an amazing book, along with an amazing movie. Anyone who hasn't read the book or watched the movie should definitely do so.
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:18 pm
"I do not trust anyone that
my cat does not like.
She loves you more than
she loves me. I also love you
more than I love me."
- Mine.. possibly turning into another piece.. possibly not.
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:02 pm
Lovely, Tak. :3
As always.
"Forget your troubles, come on, get happy..." -- Judy Garland, "Get Happy"
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:22 pm
Exactly the Hollywood without the ideals (or lack thereof)
Oh do write that piece Tak!
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here,
While these visions did appear."
~Robin Goodfellow (Puck) Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:09 am
"L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce." -- 3OH!3
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:57 pm
"You made me love you
I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to do it...
You made me love you
And all the time you knew it, and all the time you knew it...."
Another Judy Garland song. Who knew she could sing? Or am I thinking of another one--the one that played Dorothy?
I should lay off the wine.
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Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:14 pm
It IS awfully bad for your liver. Good for your heart, though, if it's red. I'm not one to talk, I suppose. Judy Garland DID play Dorothy. She was like, my idol when I was seven. I wanted to grow up and be Judy Garland. And she had one of the best voices of all time.
"Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the world's so far behind me!
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away, above the chimney-tops
That's where you'll find me." -- Judy Garland, "Somewhere", Wizard of Oz.
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