Jerome Robbins Quotes
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
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I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.
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I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
