David Hallberg quote: "I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'"

When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and b...
DAVID HALLBERG

I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.
DAVID HALLBERG

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I...
DAVID HALLBERG

If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what oth...
DAVID HALLBERG

Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have alway...
DAVID HALLBERG

Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don'...
DAVID HALLBERG

To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my rol...
DAVID HALLBERG

Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put o...
DAVID HALLBERG

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' ...
DAVID HALLBERG

I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I...
DAVID HALLBERG

Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet ...
DAVID HALLBERG

The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and inten...
DAVID HALLBERG

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.
DAVID HALLBERG

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.
DAVID HALLBERG

Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history ...
DAVID HALLBERG

I've been interested in art and fashion for as long as I can remember because they are so visual...
DAVID HALLBERG

I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend in...
DAVID HALLBERG

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do ...
DAVID HALLBERG

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do...
DAVID HALLBERG

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanti...
DAVID HALLBERG

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.
DAVID HALLBERG

Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'
DAVID HALLBERG

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.
DAVID HALLBERG

It's a thrill for me and for the players. It might not be the NCAA Tournament and it might not have ...
BOB HALLBERG

We certainly want to go out there and show we can play, but an important part of this time of year i...
BOB HALLBERG

She's really been wonderful for us, and she's made such a big difference coming off the bench. It's ...
BOB HALLBERG

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to th...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a bette...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or...
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly g...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The ...
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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the boo...
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego bein...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary n...
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get ...
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on i...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a we...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the pa...
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a ...
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teen...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was ve...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the no...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to reali...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and...
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature...
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I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the of...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinctio...
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It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me...
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Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he s...
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And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
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He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for ge...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its for...
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
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For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting ...
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A vision of underground connections flashed before him again, only inverted. A towering construction...
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All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

The four food groups of bachelorhood: Frozen, Cold Cuts, Breakfast Cereal, and Takeout.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're d...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'E...
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were in...
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And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Keith was no Franciscan, and it seemed to him an act of narcissism to feed pigeons, who would if any...
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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to othe...
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In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own ...
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Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

What people did with their genitals was their business.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Do you understand how rare it is to get a real chance to save someone?
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

But no, what interested him, psychologically speaking, was the sense of continuity itself, the mind'...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Some young man has wronged you, hasn't he?' From a person who renounced on principle the possibility...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one coul...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Then she spotted in the corner, glowing wonderfully, a Wurlitzer jukebox. ' Holy shit!' It was like ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement fo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful differen...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived....
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. B...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

He's moving with such purpose that William is scared he might just speed right off the rooftop, like...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

The universe of his own feelings keeps crowding everyone else's out. It is a constant struggle to se...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

You remember that saying, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' There's something awful...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

What would Walt Whitman do?
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, t...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

But porca miseria, the things night can do to time. In place of hardwired sequence, it's more...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Daddy just repeated the word, internship. As an alibi, it was a thing of beauty: its overtone...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

IN NEW YORK, you can get anything delivered. Such, anyway, is the principle I’m operating on.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Who didn’t exist at the convergence of a thousand thousand stories?
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

watch William’s beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narr...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Steering between the Scylla of too much and the Charybdis of not-enough, he’d worked hard to proje...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love ...
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Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imagina...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

It seemed impossible that he’d chosen to live here, at a latitude where spring was a semantic vari...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

All the same,” replied Syme patiently, “just at present you only see the tree by the light of th...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

On one hand, you couldn’t count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingl...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, t...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Choice isn’t the same thing as freedom—not when someone else is framing the choices for you.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

When you were young, you had the resources to rebuild after each crater fate blasted in your life. B...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Love, as Mercer had heretofore understood it, involved huge gravitational fields of duty and disappr...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Aren’t you somehow right here with me? I mean, who doesn’t still dream of a world other than thi...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

There was nothing New York liked reading about more than itself.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Great rolls of toilet paper arc like ejaculate through the black sycamores.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

No past and no future. Save for the fireworker himself, no one ever knows the grand finale is the gr...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

What he wanted above all to get right was the web of relationships a dozen column inches had never b...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

But I guess what I would want to leave each of you with finally -- tender some Evidence of, against ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I don't think you can really change anything unless you're willing to say yes.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

this is what happens to people when they spend their entire life inside books + never come out: real...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

And she learned that you couldn’t stockpile anything that mattered, really. Feelings, people, song...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

Sometimes you weren’t yet the person you needed to be to do the work you needed to do.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgiv...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

And people in love are not to be trusted.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become un...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

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David Hallberg

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.'

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