Bill Konigsberg Quotes

We were dancers and drummers and standers and jugglers, and there was nothing anyone needed to accept or tolerate. We celebrated.

Bill Konigsberg

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• Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Different
  • Action
  • Ways

• The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Voice
  • Temple
  • Dancers

• Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Why
  • Peace

• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Beautiful
  • Weird
  • Yoga

• A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

  

  Confucius
  • Character
  • Dancers
  • Typified

• And, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Poem
  • Celebrated
  • Conducting

• It's funny, you go to Jerry's house, and he's got like dogs and a stream and he just hangs out...he doesn't have bikini dancers on every surface at his house, you know? We're easy-going guys.

  

  Mike Inez Black Label Society
  • House
  • Guys
  • Dogs

• Item song dancers like Silk Smitha and Jayamalini have become irrelevant. The heroines are doing those dances themselves.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Irrelevant
  • Dancers
  • Heroines

• You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Come
  • Dreamed
  • Victories

• Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Artists
  • Experiences
  • Pictures

• Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Ignorance
  • Jugglers

• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  

  Elizabeth Streb
  • Choice
  • Hearts
  • Investigation

• Indeed, a funeral can give a subsequent event new importance for the entire family because the newly celebrated individual becomes the replacement for the family member who has just died.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Family
  • Died
  • Celebrated

• I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Sexuality
  • Celebrated
  • Criticized

• I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Die
  • Never
  • Seen

• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finding

• An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Great
  • Art
  • May

• Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Voice
  • Gods
  • Sing

• One really important thing is to have good friends and family that will be there to help you when the hard times come. Because bad times do come, for everyone, at some point. The good part is, the bad times don't last forever.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  

  George Nakashima
  • Success
  • Created
  • Relate

• We were dancers and drummers and standers and jugglers, and there was nothing anyone needed to accept or tolerate. We celebrated.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Dancers
  • Celebrated
  • Jugglers