Agnes de Mille Quotes
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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If the home is good, all will be good.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
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I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
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Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
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Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
