Robert Wilson Quotes
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.
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What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'
