"Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think they don't understand it. Actually they do. It's the most primitive form of appeal."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Robert Helpmann

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“I'd like to meet you In a timeless placeless place Somewhere out of context And beyond all consequences.”
“People can be cruelest to those they love.”
“I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.”
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.”
“Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.”
“Taste cannot be controlled by law.”
“What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.”

Source : "Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms". Book by Elizabeth Bibesco, 1951.
“At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.85, Baker Books

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