From: Angusson-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:28:44 EDT
To: segalpuppets-AT-comcast.net, puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] striving for the best


Hi Mark:

Today seems to be a day of quotes.....
So   I'll quote Roser again. 

'Don't try to be the best. Just try to be GOOD!' 

Failure does hurt. I'm not saying anything that we all don't know already, 
but (sorry) we learn from our failures. The hardest lesson is learning to not be 
afraid to fail. I'm still working on that one... Really. 

But there is a danger in not trying. Especially when one might miss the 
opportunity to experience that incredible moment when you 'know' that you, the 
puppet and the audience are one. That you've gotten over yourself and invested in 
the real purpose of your being there: to attempt to transport your audience 
through your art, if only for that moment, out of themselves to another place. 

It's such a joy to be in that moment and it's so elusive. 

You know that I've dismissed the old saw of 'the willing suspension of 
disbelief.' I SO believe in the power of the puppet that I'm no longer convinced 
that anything is or needs to be suspended. 
That in those special moments one does BELIEVE!!!   
I have no idea why it happens so I won't attempt to try to explain it. I just 
know it happens.   I can't even explain what my fascination with puppetry is 
all about either. I just know that when I saw my first marionette show by the 
Roses, that was it. I was hooked.   I have no idea why.

As I said before, puppetry is unique in all the arts. 

Sorry for such a long-winded post. 

Fred Thompson


> I had an acting teacher who once said,
> "If you are going to succeed, succeed big,
> If you are going to fail - fail big-- just don't be mediocre."
> 
> 




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