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.
Jerome Robbins
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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.
G-Eazy
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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.
Imre Kertesz
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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.
Kate Thompson
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
W. G. Sebald
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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.
Jacob Epstein
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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.
Pamela Meyer
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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.
Galileo Galilei
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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.'
Olivia Wilde
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The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.
Elizabeth Barton
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Edmond Rostand
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I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.
Bjork
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Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.
Hayley Williams
Paramore
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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.
Jerome Robbins
