"I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines."

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Rod Milburn

#Running Quotes #Track Quotes #Dancer Quotes

“Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both, like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.109, Emblem Editions
“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.”
“One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.”
“You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.”
“The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.”

Source : Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.85, Courier Corporation
“When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.”

Source : Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press
“I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me.”
“At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?”

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