Justin Peck Quotes

I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through. I think there needs to be an updated or different approach to storytelling in dance. There needs to be less of a separation between the storytelling and the dancing.

Justin Peck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1987

Topics

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I don't want music to be a museum.

Jens Lekman

MusicMuseumWant

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

Jean-Michel Jarre

TechnologyRelationshipWorldProject

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

John Podhoretz

PeopleNothingWhyHappenMayPolls

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

Stephan Pastis

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I like to wear bodysuits and things that make me feel really active and athletic and also really sensual.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Tom Lehrer

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I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

Robert Adams

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Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Jaron Lanier

TechnologyPeopleThinkToolsMoral

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

Jon Scieszka

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Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

Denis Waitley

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I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

Douglas Carter Beane

BeautifulMeLookWayTrySee

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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