Eleanor Bergstein famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

  • I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

  • Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

  • The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  • The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

  • Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

  • There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  • First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

  • I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  • I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.