Roselee Quotes & Sayings

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt. — Roselee Goldberg

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu. — Roselee Goldberg

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something. — Sebastian Faulks

I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it. — Roselee Goldberg

I think what art is always doing is making us see the world so differently, and I don't mean just colors and light, but re-thinking relationships, spatial relationships, psychological relationships ... those who gravitate to the art world actually want to be puzzled. — Roselee Goldberg

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on. — Rebecca Lobo

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue. — Roselee Goldberg

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas. — Roselee Goldberg

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him. — Roselee Goldberg

The physical distress was over, but something else still remained, some sort of free-floating disquiet, at first hard to comprehend, but which he came quickly to understand for what it was: the splendor of the tunnels had kindled in him at first a sense of admiration verging on awe, but that had gone moving swiftly onward through his soul to become a crushing, devastating sensation of personal inadequacy. — Robert Silverberg

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

What I hated then - and hate now - is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn't ruin your life - having a child is a blessing. — Rebecca Ferguson

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease. — Jonathan Barnbrook

We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram. — Bill Whittle

Do you believe in angels? Real ones?'
He strugged. 'I don't think they have feathery wings or anything like that. I think they're people who do good things even if they get nothing out of it. People like your father ... and you. — Bree Despain

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that. — Roselee Goldberg

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going. — Roselee Goldberg

I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great. — Roselee Goldberg

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) — Clare Winger Harris

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more. — Ellen Hopkins

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that. — Lucy Foley

The truth is I dislike cars. Whenever I drive a car, I have the feeling I have become invisible. People on the street cannot see you; they only watch your rear fender until it is out of their way. — Walker Percy

My art history papers were really politics. They were about the manifestation of culture through the eye of political events. So there was always that refusal to settle in one place, or one discipline or medium. — Roselee Goldberg

Was death better than an unfulfilling eternity? Why, — Lani Lenore

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way. — Roselee Goldberg

There aren't that many superstars around anymore. — Al Yankovic