"Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming"

-- Mary Wigman

#Character Quotes #Night Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.”

Source : 1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.
“Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”
“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.”
“It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.”
“I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.”
“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.”

Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 2002.
“He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.”

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