Wayne McGregor Quotes
With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
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JU: Are you thin still? M: Um, in a crowd, yes. In a crowd of very heavy people.
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It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
