Martha Graham Quotes

Censorship is the height of vanity.

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• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Lonely

• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Job
  • America

• The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Romantic

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!

  

  Natalie Morales
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Europe

• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Important
  • Look
  • Plan

• In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

  

  Rachel True
  • Time
  • Friends
  • End

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Political
  • Man
  • Speech

• I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Me

• In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Perfect
  • Like
  • Magical

• Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Age
  • You
  • Process

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Christian
  • Positive
  • Messages

• One of the good things about losing your feet is I can wear all the pointy shoes I want, and it doesn't hurt anymore. I can wear shoes just for fashion now.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Hurt

• At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Live
  • You
  • Die

• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Hunting

• I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

  

  Anne Enright

• My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Beginning
  • Legacy
  • Ends

• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Creativity

• I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

  

  Dwight Henry
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Worry

• When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Succeed
  • Fail
  • Pattern

• Censorship is the height of vanity.

  

  Martha Graham