Performa Quotes

#1. At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#2. Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

Roberta Smith

#3. The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#4. In America, you don't have to be weak, you have to be strong.

Lea Seydoux

#5. In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Charles Krauthammer

#6. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Richard Lewis

#7. Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

Charles Colson

#8. You need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

Stephen King

#9. But love's not an emotion that can be forced. It has to fall from your heart like a skydiver, floating through the air, captive to no one. Eventually though, eventually you have to hit the ground.

C.M. Stunich

#10. Martha Stewart's my idol.

Blake Lively

#11. What?"
"Nothing." He laughed."You were really hungry."
"I don't need to defend my eating to anyone.And just so you know,when I'm done with this,I plan to eat three whole cookies."
"Whoa." He held up his hands."Now you're pulling out the big guns."
"I don't mess around.

Tristi Pinkston

#12. I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

Courtney Love

#13. How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Paulo Freire

#14. It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

Seneca The Elder

#15. Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

Ina Garten