Ninette de Valois Quotes
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.Ninette de Valois
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Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.
Camille Paglia -
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
Yael Grobglas -
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon -
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
Kate Atkinson -
I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
Babette March -
Against this current conception of religion the prophets insisted on a right life as the true worship of God. Morality to them was not merely a prerequisite of effective ceremonial worship. They brushed sacrificial ritual aside altogether as trifling compared with righteousness, nay, as a harmful substitute and a hindrance for ethical religion.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I feel like we go through different stages of love. When you get a little bit older, love starts to feel different, but you see that love has always been there.
Khalid -
On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
Kelly Asbury -
I'm motivated to be No. 1.
Jason Day -
I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.
Phil Klay -
When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
Anne-Marie Duff -
That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
B. J. Daniels
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Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
Catherine Tate -
Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.
William Strunk, Jr. -
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
Ninette de Valois