Elizabeth Streb quotes
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“It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.”
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“Skip your brain and go right to the gut,”
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“My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.”
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“Anything that’s too safe is not action.”
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“You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.”
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“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”
-- Elizabeth StrebSource : Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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“Anything that’s too safe is not action.”
-- Elizabeth Streb
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“Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.”
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Source : Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.62
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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.”
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