Merce Cunningham Quotes

The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.

Merce Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1919 - July 26, 2009

Topics

TogetherMindChancePossibilities

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Andreja Pejic

PoliticsYourselfIdentityBigFan

As you all know, Prince is no longer with us. It is extremely difficult for me, and that is why I have chosen not to discuss it.

Mayte Garcia

MeYouKnowWhyDifficultUs

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Martin Sheen

GodBeginningThinkChurchUsJesus

The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

PeopleCareDoingWantOnlyStuff

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Joseph Kosinski

PeopleSurpriseDaysBeingAble

I stopped this one about two months before federation and I want the next one to be more political. It will deal with the formation of white Australian policy and things like that.

Colleen McCullough

PoliticalWhiteWantWillMoreTwo

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Conor Oberst

LifeSadRestSadnessThinkBetter

I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

WinChanceTryingQuitNeverFelt

Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.

Peter Capaldi

MirrorI AmDoctorOldHimFan

I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way. I feel like there's this great fullness to being alone, and writing is a really vivid way and a really magical way of being alone.

Sheila Heti

AloneBeautifulGreatBeing Alone

It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

Sher Valenzuela

GovernmentKindMoreNeedBigLean

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

Richard Burton

LiveYouStrangersFindAlienYears

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