"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved"

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Source : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation

Henry Mayhew

#Girl Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Reputation Quotes

“I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.”
“I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.”
“I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.”
“Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that weÂ´re the captain of our own sould, and weÂ´re in charge, and itÂ´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, thatÂ´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and thatÂ´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."”
“The living need charity more than the dead.”

Source : 'The Jolly Old Pedagogue'
“The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.”
“I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.”
“Art is an intersection of many human needs.”

Source : Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press

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