"I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life."

-- Isadora Duncan

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“I definitely learned to communicate with other musicians better. I used to feel so intimidated by guys who can read notes, like, "Oh my god, they're gonna think I'm not even gonna be able to sit at the table." But I've come to see that a lot of these musicians don't know how to read music either, and that made me feel good. I could just come up with ideas or show somebody things and get the ideas across.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I haven't always wanted to be an actor, no. I wasn't one of the little kids that was desperate to be an actor. I did a lot of drama and a lot of music, but it was just something for fun on the side. I was quite shy as a kid and I found a lot of freedom in performing. I never knew you could do it as a job.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.”

Source : Scott Simon (2015). “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime”, p.109, Macmillan
“We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.”
“He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.”
“The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite.”
“The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.”

Source : 1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.
“Thanks are the highest form of thought.”

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