#w

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#belief #delightful #given #had #him

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech. ↗

— Ron Davies

#done #entitled #everybody #exercise #free

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

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#accept #being #choice #dance #dancers

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#influence #just #know #our #outside

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

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#america #artists #ask #come #could

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#already #develop #development #experience #got

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#back #creativity #energy #excitement #exciting

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment. ↗

— Eric Davis

#after #best #could #days #diagnosed