Sylvie Guillem Quotes

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

Sylvie Guillem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 25, 1965

Topics

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One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

John Collison

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I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Robert Metcalfe

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When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.

John Rocha

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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill

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I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

Amy Tan

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Cycling is a business.

Lizzie Armitstead

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A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.

Joseph P. Bradley

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I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'

Dick Dale

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I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

Donald Trump

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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.

Chris Wooding

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I'm always smiling and happy.

Brandy Norwood

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