A Quote by Elizabeth Bibesco
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
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But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.
People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.
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Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.
I definitely consider myself a Method actor, because of my training. I might dispute what people consider a Method actor to be. For my money, a Method actor is an actor who has a technique. That has a method. And not one method, but whatever might be required. So a Method actor is always learning.
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My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.
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You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.
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