"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Moving Quotes #Years Quotes #Space Quotes

“We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ...”
“I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.”
“America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.”

Source : Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.
“You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.”
“I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “A Stranger in My Grave”, p.116, Soho Press
“Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.”
“The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.”

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