Agnes de Mille Quotes

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

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• Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Me
  • Training
  • Providence

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• I really like sort of disappearing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Really
  • Disappearing

• You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Understand

• I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Book
  • Group
  • Tend

• I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Never

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Me
  • Winning
  • Worth

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Yourself

• I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • World
  • Irish

• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• The tours are campaigns.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Campaigns
  • Tours

• Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Men
  • Black
  • California

• It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Proud

• If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • She
  • Die

• Ich singe, wie der Vogel singtDer in den Zweigen wohnet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Black
  • Problem

• Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

  

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