Justin Peck Quotes

Balanchine is the number one influence for me. His work was really musically driven. He and Jerome Robbins were the ones who really showed me that dance could be about the inner relation between movement and music. When I was a student first seeing their work, I was like, 'Oh, this is a thing?'

Justin Peck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.

Joel Grey

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Robert South

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I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

Anna Paquin

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My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Ronaldinho

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I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there.

Rupi Kaur

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There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

Michael Specter

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I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

Michael Stuhlbarg

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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Mohsin Hamid

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If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Joshua Foer

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I hated 'Avatar' from the jump. And I like James Cameron. I'm not opposed to James Cameron.

Chris Cubas

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I always thought once you get your contract, I think that's when the accolades and all that stuff comes.

Chris Harris, Jr.

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It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

Chevy Chase

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