Antony Tudor Quotes
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.
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A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
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Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'
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Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
