Siobhan Davies Quotes

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Siobhan Davies

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I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

John Cleese

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A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

John Lahr

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

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The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.

Marvin Sapp

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I'm quite sarcastic, and I'm funny, but not kind of funny. It's a weird funny, and some people don't get me, and some people do.

Millie Bobby Brown

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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

Livy

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I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Jason Calacanis

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Bad politics make for bad morals.

Joseph Brodsky

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Political courage is not political suicide.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

Hunter Tylo

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I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.'

Gillian Welch

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