Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a longing to remain in a creative and imaginative world beyond the constraints of reality.
Tom Baker expresses his emotional connection to the character he portrayed in Doctor Who, conveying how the experience of inhabiting such a fantastical realm made the end of rehearsals a bittersweet moment. The quote illustrates the joy and beauty found in storytelling and performance, highlighting the impact of engaging in art that allows one to escape reality and explore the unreal.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of art in education, this quote can illustrate how the experience of creativity can provide joy.
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with people, comes your ideology, comes your hate, comes your love - all together in this fraction of a second, it materializes there.
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.
I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write a song, making tiny tweaks, reading it out loud, shifting things to make it sound a certain way... Sometimes it feels like digging out of a hole, but sometimes it feels like flying. When it's working and the rhythm's there, it does feel like magic to me.
Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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