Pina Bausch Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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Well, kids are never much on history. Nor for that matter was anybody else. It had been MacAllister’s experience that most people think anything that happened before they were born didn’t count for a whole lot.
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It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.
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I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.
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I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
