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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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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I fell into politics by accident. It was not something I planned. It just happened because I'd done so much reading and work in the community, I was prepared to do the job when the opportunity came along.
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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.
