"I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults."

-- Judith Jamison

#Class Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Age Quotes

“There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.”
“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.”
“It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.”
“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earthâ€™s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for â€¦ the origin of chains of high mountains â€¦ and the rise of lava to the earthâ€™s surface.”
“There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.”
“Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body”

Source : Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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