Merce Cunningham Quotes

I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.

Merce Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

Jerry Spinelli

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For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

John Hutton

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I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

Mia Kirshner

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The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Sue Grafton

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It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Shirley Jones

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The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is there at every moment, protecting the revolution and protecting France, and he rises to the equivalent of a four-star general.

Tom Reiss

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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robertson Davies

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As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

Jules Renard

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One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.

Jon Postel

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It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.

Alfred Werner

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Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Thomas Mann

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