Sylvie Guillem Quotes

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.

Sylvie Guillem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MorningPainFreeYouBackKnow

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Joan of Arc

KingCityEndYouParisTrue

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Andrew O'Hagan

AgeChildrenWorldBelieveHuman

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

John Corbett

BusinessMeThinkHellDoingPerson

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

Anita Borg

WomenCommunityScienceExistence

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Mia Wasikowska

DanceWorldFeelEasyActingSay

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

NatureScienceWorldPerceptionYou

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

Sophia Bush

BetterEnoughYouKnowYoungWasted

The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way.

Steven Weber

SocietyEndDrivingRulesLivingUp

Writing monsters is fun, and it's easy. When I want one, I just reach under the bed and pull it out, kicking and screaming.

Rob Thurman

FunWritingReachEasyBedWant

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Mary-Louise Parker

MyselfMeMoviesSeeDisappointed

To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit of watering gives you time to be creative in your mind.

Mary Berry

HomeTimeWalkJobCreativeMind

My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and everything - but being a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia... it was like someone had turned the light off in my head. I could not get a grasp on why women were treated like this.

Mona Eltahawy

FamilyWomenGirlLightSomeoneWhy

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