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“Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!”
Source : "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.
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“The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.”
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“Do you remember A Wrinkle in Time? It's a good one example. I think the character's name is Meg. I just remember she was a very logical, intelligent, advanced girl. I wouldn't say that I felt like that was who I was, but I wanted to be around her; I wanted to be like her. She had an understanding of science and was incredibly curious - an interesting, complex young girl.”
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“It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value...”
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“The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.”
Source : Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan
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“To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.”
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“Spend some time alone every day.”
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“There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.”
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“You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer”
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“So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”
Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
