Matthew Bourne Quotes

My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.

Matthew Bourne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 13, 1960

Topics

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When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.

John Grogan

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When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

Matthew Desmond

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If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

Michael Flanders

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I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

Michael Graves

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I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.

Trevor Donovan

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It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Tomas Transtromer

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Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you're done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance - which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast - takes over.

Jean Chatzky

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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

Joshua Lederberg

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The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.

Josh Hamilton

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Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Jose Rizal

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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

Dhani Harrison

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