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" Yes, I've been in love, but I guess I'm too involved with myself and my work. I think I'm in love with my work, and I'm in love with the people I work with. "
Robert Wilson
Love
People
Myself
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" I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face. "
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" My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream. "
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" I learned loudness from working with Lou Reed. "
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" All theater is dance. "
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" New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world. "
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" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "
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" I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words. "
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" In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy. "
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Policy
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" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "
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Calm
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" I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence. "
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" I'm an artist, not a philosopher. "
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Philosopher
" It's important that we have the traditional operas and the repertory, but we should also have something new. "
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Important
Something
New
" Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource. "
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Start
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" By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell. "
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Society
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" Chairs are like sculpture. "
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Like
Chairs
Sculpture
" I usually stay in on Sunday nights. I'm not much of a party person. "
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Stay
Party
Much
" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "
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Walk
Did
Stand
" The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. "
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Work
Light
Sky
" My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school. "
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Mother
Time
Great
" I don't see anyone for the first hour and a half that I'm awake. I don't like to talk, and I don't like to hear any sounds. People know not to bother me! I use that time to read, and make lists and notes of things I have to do later in the day. "
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Day
Me
People
" The mind is a muscle. "
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Muscle
Mind
" I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. "
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Been
Architecture
Always
" Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. "
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Everything
Acting
Work
" I think that I've always been a kind of structured person. "
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Think
Person
Been
" If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? "
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See
Sunset
You
" I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making. "
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Am
Never
Kind
" My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. "
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Work
People
" The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.' "
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" If we lose our culture, we lose our memory. "
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Our
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