A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.


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ANGELA CARTER
Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solst...
ANGELA CARTER
The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a...
ANGELA CARTER
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
ANGELA CARTER
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
ANGELA CARTER
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
ANGELA MONET
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by...
ANGELA DAVIS
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
ANGELA CARTER
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Beli...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio...
ANGELA DAVIS
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abo...
ANGELA DAVIS
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, per...
ANGELA CARTER
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and be...
ANGELA DAVIS
Spying among friends is never acceptable.
ANGELA MERKEL
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridic...
ANGELA LANSBURY
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement tha...
ANGELA DAVIS
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to...
ANGELA DAVIS
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved activel...
ANGELA DAVIS
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery ...
ANGELA DAVIS
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS
We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era...
ANGELA MERKEL
I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can ...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like ...
ANGELA CARTER
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
ANGELA CARTER
It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision.
ANGELA AHRENDTS
I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's liv...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would b...
ANGELA MERKEL
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballe...
ANGELA MERKEL
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institu...
ANGELA DAVIS
I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux...
ANGELA BOWIE
It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard...
ANGELA RUGGIERO
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll...
ANGELA BASSETT
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer,...
ANGELA RUGGIERO
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
ANGELA WATSON
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital w...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it'...
ANGELA DAVIS
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your emp...
ANGELA AHRENDTS
Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal ...
ANGELA MCGLOWAN
I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clea...
ANGELA MERKEL
People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a ch...
ANGELA CARTWRIGHT
When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a s...
ANGELA MERKEL
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from Am...
ANGELA BASSETT
Sometimes with the initial shock, you have to have some down time as far as crying, grieving and som...
ANGELA BRIDGES
If a student comes in my office and doesn't want to talk me, they just might want to sit still, be a...
ANGELA BRIDGES