"Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing."

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Source : Lincoln Kirstein (1970). “Four Centuries of Ballet: Fifty Masterworks”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Lincoln Kirstein

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“I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me....”
“My films do very well on home video.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I went travelling around Europe there was the Eurovision song contest on, and I got a bit dunk and we missed our train to Budapest the next day. Anyway, when I got back I kind of realised how many songs there were about people giving up things for somebody, so I thought I'd make a song about giving up things I don't have. These elaborate things that I don't have that I could give up to somebody, and I kind of thought there was kind of some sweet sentiment in that.”

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“The spirit of Hitler is not dead.”
“I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.”
“Weâ€™ll fight Pacquiao, Iâ€™ll stop this fight [Carlos Molina] to fight Pacquiao. What would I got to do?”
“In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.”
“From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.”

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