"In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals."

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Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

Jamake Highwater

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“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”
“Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy”
“The law of balance is a law of applied consciousness. You can never change it. You will get one thing, you lose the other, you get third thing, you lose the fourth. Always there will be a gap. The 'law of gap' is that there is no gap and how can that gap be filled? Be in gratitude. Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you.”
“Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.”
“Evolved? As a dancer? Me? I donâ€™t fall down as much, unless itâ€™s part of the scripted dance. I donâ€™t step on other peopleâ€™s toes anymore. I think if I started the show a one out of ten dancer, now I am a two and a half.”
“Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.”

Source : "Storytelling That Moves People". Interview with Bronwyn Fryer, hbr.org. June 2003.
“I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.”

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