#idea

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#beginning #cell #could #effect #exactly

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#as far as #audience #bricks #built #dance

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. ↗

— John Updike

#end #ends #heaven #held #ideal

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#come #ideas #matter #musical #musical ideas

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like. ↗

— Geena Davis

#cute #family #get #great #great idea

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#her #him #ideally #lives #need

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#any #come #director #done #go

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#because #done #end #head #i

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #chance #completely #could #counterparts

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#beginning #chic #i #ideas #nothing