Doris Humphrey Quotes
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.
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To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on;Whose prose is grand verse while his verse the Lord knowsIs some of it pr- No, 't is not even prose!
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
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There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn, and the better actor I will become.
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
