Sylvie Guillem quotes
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“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.”
-- Sylvie GuillemSource : "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.
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“Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.”
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“When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.”
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“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.”
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“I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.”
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“No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.”
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“My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.”
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“No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.”
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“Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.”
Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
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Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
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“Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter, Varla Ventura (2012). “The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.16, Weiser Books
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“My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.”
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