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Alvin Ailey Quotes

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 5, 1931 - December 1, 1989

Topics

Music Pleasure Choreography Dancers

I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

Life Character Words Preparation

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Nature Destroy Instinct Still

I've taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you're in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it's on track, that it's going in.

Life My Life You Perfect Know Going

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

Opening Line See I See China Soviet

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

Space Voice Key Powerful Everything

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Money American Tolerance Stock Market

One of the reasons why we can make a lot of money in equity markets is because they're auction-driven, and auction-driven markets are very different from almost any other kind of market.

Money Kind Why Equity Market Almost

What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.

Love Value Worth Dignity Understand

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

Time Problems Wrong Said Difficult

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

Learning Best Ride World Process

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

Home Brooklyn Nice Neighborhood Left

With Yele Haiti, the first thing was I'm proud of the organization and the work that the organization has done, and in the future hope to continue doing.

Work Future Hope Organization Proud

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