"Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times."

-- Agnes de Mille

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“As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor is an even worker. Any one may achieve on some rare occasion an outburst of genuine feeling, a gesture of imperishable beauty, a ringing accent of truth; but your scientific actor knows how he did it. He can repeat it again and again and again. He can be depended on.”
“Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.”
“One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?"-Massie Block”
“We now have a national reputation for corruption.”
“It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.”
“Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.”
“I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.”
“I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, when I was Young”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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