A Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.
I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.
There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued me like when "Burlesque" showed up at my door. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. I've been intrigued by the time that it's set in, in the 20's, 30's, 40's and so I knew it was a no brainer for me to be a part of once I met with the team.
I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay $5.50 to see a show on Broadway, but they could scrape together $1.00 for a matinee at a burlesque house.
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?
It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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