Peggy Phelan Quotes

#1. When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

Gabrielle Aplin

#2. Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.

Peggy Phelan

#3. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

Ben Aaronovitch

#4. Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

Constantin Stanislavski

#5. Performance's being becomes itself through disappearance.

Peggy Phelan

#6. I was twelve miles from no where.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#7. I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#8. It's just a book and a book can't leave me. A book can't decide who it wants to be with.

Cecily Anne Paterson

#9. I wear high heels for long legs.

Georgia May Jagger

#10. Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

Sergio Martinez

#11. But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

Anatole France

#12. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he who has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the misery of the child.

Victor Hugo

#13. Life, like the trance we call Love, might begin with a look, a glance, an exchange between eyes

Peggy Phelan

#14. I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Tig Notaro

#15. The greatest friends and companions in times of horrible sadness are the ones who don't attempt to fix or quantify your experience, but rather are simply present and willing to share only as little or as much of your life as you invite them into." Well

September Vaudrey

#16. I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Larry Doby

#17. You know,(in Life) everyone's an author, We need to read each other more and kindly respond.

James Francis