Cecil Balmond Quotes

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

Cecil Balmond

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• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Dancing
  • Last
  • Sponsor

• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wisdom
  • Expect
  • Others

• As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Want
  • Me
  • Angry

• I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Think
  • You
  • Said

• It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Money
  • Just
  • Admit

• That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Fun

• Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen is a rupture from previous work as its obsession is with the psychology of characters who are in states of unknowing living in unpredictable times where the stakes are unusually high.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Work
  • Character
  • Book

• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truths
  • Self-evident
  • Statesmen

• The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

  

  Aristotle
  • Science
  • Man
  • Politics

• I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on rappers, causin' hospital accidents.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Brain
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Right

• He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Head

• I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Like
  • Body
  • Structure

• Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Devil
  • Heat
  • Complain

• A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Emotions
  • Impulse
  • Sterile Life

• I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

  

  Cecil Balmond
  • Paper
  • Architect
  • Pencils