Benjamin Harkarvy Quotes
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
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L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.
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The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.
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So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
