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Sylvie Guillem Quotes

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Training Child Thought Never Normal

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.

Think Week Three Years Opera Soap

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

Anna Deavere Smith

Future Freedom American Hands New

I wanted to be a journalist. I used to write articles at university about politics.

Ana Patricia Botin

Politics Write University Used About

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Religion Grow Political Become Dogma

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

Weird Award You Seeing House Kind

In business, no one pays you to have a really good year and then 10 bad years.

Good Business Year You Bad Years

In my 20s, it was very hard to go, 'I'm heavier than that girl.' Getting older makes a huge difference.

Constance Zimmer

Girl Getting Older Go Hard Older

I think what Mr. Trump has is this - he has experiences. He has put more things together in businesses around the United States, around the world. And he's had some things that didn't go exactly right. He's been able to find a way to resurrect those things. He's been able to make some changes.

Together World Think Find Go Way

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Flower Creative Seed Spark Never

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Alicia Silverstone

Busy Never Always Film Actress Knew

I eventually just imagined being a little boy who was quote unquote 'normal': who could learn like all the kids around me that I felt excluded from. And I imagined myself into one of these and into someone who could read.

Myself Me Learn Someone Boy Normal

Sometimes you read five, six, seven times for a role, and you meet new people every time, and you just keep climbing that ladder, and then it never goes anywhere. And then sometimes you just read once, and then you get it!

Scott Michael Foster

Time People You New Sometimes Meet

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