Al Duncan Quotes

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

I'm still learning. Hopefully I can keep getting better, and not stop where I am now.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction.

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.

Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

You only live once. If you don't enjoy it, it's your fault, nobody else's

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

If you don’t do something differently, you’ll ultimately be where you are now, only later.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough!

It was the best 10 years of my career, in fact they are the only team I ever actually played for. That’s what happens when you play for Everton, you forget the rest, the rest means nothing.