Antony Tudor Quotes
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Cut your arms and legs off, and you're left with a trunk, which you need to be as strong as possible. It's easier to push over someone who is tall and skinny than someone short and stocky. That's why we work everything from the calves to the neck.
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I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
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The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.
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I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.
