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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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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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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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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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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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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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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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
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The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
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Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
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Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
