Anna Halprin Quotes

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

Anna Halprin

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• There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Live
  • Fear

• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Age
  • Story
  • Meaningful

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• You never want to see a guy struggle. And we've all struggled. It's part of the game.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Want

• We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Want
  • Know
  • Never

• The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Broken
  • Promise

• Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Power
  • Path

• Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Me
  • Special

• For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Important
  • Women
  • Pretty

• My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Mother
  • Moving
  • New York

• I used to ride horses when I was younger. Ponies were my life. I miss being fearless.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Fearless

• In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Country
  • Age
  • Goals

• Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • One Day
  • Intentions
  • All The Time

• My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.

  

  Ellen Klages
  • Mind
  • Father

• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Climbing
  • Bricks
  • Spice Girls

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear?

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Country
  • Spirit
  • Voice

• Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

  

  Anna Halprin
  • Dance
  • Spirit
  • Find