Mark Morris Quotes (21 Quotes)


    It has been up to parents to hit the Web and hit the books and find information on both sides about K-8.

    Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

    That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.

    I think the thing that impressed me is (ATT CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new ATT.

    Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.


    You have to assume the partners are going to sell. It's to be expected when the restrictions are lifted.

    I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

    Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

    In all fairness, it's not as though the gay films lost arbitrarily. The other movies like 'Crash' -- my God, it was underrated, but my God, it was brilliant.

    I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

    I read that, ... But I don't talk about journalism. It's not about me. It's about the writer.

    You can regard these magnetic field lines as akin to a taut rubber band. If you twist one end, the twist will travel up the rubber band.

    I'm not 100 per cent certain what my wages budget will be for next season and while it is still up in the air I can't afford to re-sign anyone who is out of contract.

    We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.

    It's as if there's a bar across the middle of the black hole, or a dumbbell shape, where the strands are anchored, and as it spins around, it twists the strands together.

    I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.

    So I'll do what I can to let people see that now.

    Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

    I can't say because I don't get into that part of the business,

    one of the most important modern dances.

    Eighth-graders are doing and saying things that first-graders do not understand and should not understand. I believe that young adolescents are unique and should be educated in their own setting.


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