Suzanne Farrell Quotes

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

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• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• Fandom is amazing.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Amazing

• It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Young
  • Role Model

• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • World
  • Music
  • Reading

• Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but 'Straight Outta Compton' speaks to triumph. When it's doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Pain
  • Growth
  • Wall

• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Be Yourself

• I would like to leave you with a couple of thoughts:

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Couple
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• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Nice
  • Animal

• I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

  

  Antonio Sabato, Jr.
  • Music

• I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • Time

• When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Mind
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• I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

  

  James Lipton
  • Interesting
  • Driving

• For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Important
  • Kids

• Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Desire
  • Kiss

• There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.

  

  William Walker Atkinson
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings
  • Negative

• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Determination
  • Preparation
  • Ballet

• I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

  

  Suzanne Farrell
  • Exist
  • Ballet
  • Midwest