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Courtney. 20-something. Indianapolis.
I was born about 50 years too late.
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Posted: August 8rd
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“I didn’t really care about performing.  The joy is creating.  Let’s take a dance that’s pulled out of the air, transfer it onto the instrument called the body.  The creation of that is a bit masochistic but joyful.  Once that’s done, if I could have gotten several young men to dance for me, I’d have gladly said, ‘Go ahead’.” - Gene Kelly, 1986
Posted: August 8rd
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“… you should make all dance numbers look easy.  If the audience is aware you are working hard, then you’re not dancing well.  You have to look like they can all go out and do it themselves.  That’s the best way to have it look.” - Gene Kelly, 1974
Posted: August 8rd
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“You hear a lot of bad-mouthing about the old studio system, and, of course, there were shortcomings.  I defend so many things about the old system because it worked out well for at least the musical groups that I saw at the studios, especially those at MGM.” - Gene Kelly, 1981
Posted: August 8rd
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“On TV, attired in a dinner jacket, he sometimes appears to be a show business elder statesman, but when he starts to sing or dance, the years fall away.” - Saul Chaplin, 1976
Posted: August 8rd
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“Even though some of us can pronounce ‘auteur’, we know that it doesn’t exist.” - Gene Kelly, 1980
Posted: August 8rd
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“Just as I’ve always felt America is a melting-pot of various ethnic groups, that is the way I like to dance.  It took a while to define it.  As a matter of fact, I was in my late twenties before I even began to learn what I was trying to do.” - Gene Kelly, 1981
Posted: August 8rd
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“There are times when you know there’s something there, and you sweat, and strain, and work, and it truly does become the old Thomas Alva Edison axiom of being 99% perspiration.  But you know when you have it.” - Gene Kelly, 1981
Posted: August 8rd
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“Gene had his own manner and charm, and he was good at singing and dancing and he had this wonderful Irish-American brash quality which was so winning and so full of energy that it was an irresistible charm.” - Stanley Donen, 1996
Posted: August 8rd
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“Gene’s interested in everything.  In every phase of picture making, of people, the arts, of politics, of - of everything.  And - and this quality can be irritating in a friend, as you probably know - he’s good at everything.  He’s even good at being lazy, sarcastic, and bad-tempered.  It’s those last which keep him out of the ranks of men you just admire and - to me - lifts him to being the sort of guy you can get mad at, and love.” - Isobel Lennart, 1946
Posted: August 8th
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Posted: August 8th
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“I don’t understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That’s the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.” - Alfred Hitchcock (August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980)
Posted: August 8th
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I’m against virtuosity.  The only question I ask myself is where a camera should be placed to add power to the scene.  Every element including the inherent beauty of the picture, the aesthetics of the movements, the rhythms and the effects, must all be used for the purpose of the action. —Alfred Hitchcock
"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."
P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins (As quoted in The New York Times (2 July 1978))

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Posted: July 7st
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fuckyeahdisneylines: 109. Lilo & Stitch
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."
Walt Disney (via dosed-by-you)

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