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Merce Cunningham Quotes

My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.

Merce Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Birds Small Seeing Movement

I feel like I have a lot of potential, a lot of stuff to show.

Joel Embiid

Potential Feel I Feel Like Stuff Lot

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Young Pleasant Toes Ten Thing

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

Robert Harris

People Landscape Flow Will First

I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.

Andy Serkis

Good Me Think Army Career Become

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

Truth Trust Better Brick Argument

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Sidney Lumet

You Director Little Come Accident

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

Robert Conrad

Man You Film Well Your Falls

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Mary Doria Russell

Think Worldview

You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.

Michael Owen

Confidence I Am People You Mood Am

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

Jose Ferreira

Work Best Finance Start Know Need

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

Christine Blasey Ford

Psychology Degree University Earned

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Brian K. Vaughan

Myself I Am Happy Think More Visual