"I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition."

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Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

Suzanne Farrell

#Healthy Quotes #Competition Quotes #Tests Quotes

“Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.”
“But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.”
“Photoshop can make everything too easy, everything is possible in the hands of a good retoucher, look at any authorised photo of a celebrity to get my point. I still prefer the creative challenge of working with the found paper image in the main, I like the sensuality of the cut and the messiness of the glue.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.”

Source : Sam Shepard (1976). “Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts”, p.16, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.”
“If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.”
“I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.”
“We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.”

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