Ted Shawn Quotes
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.
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The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
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I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.
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I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
