Wayne McGregor Quotes
Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
Quotes to Explore
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.
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I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
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Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.
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You try to say every week that you're facing a faceless opponent. No matter who it is, you want to have the same mindset, no matter what type of game it is - first game of the season, last game of the season.
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Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
