We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
タグ: always, true, believe, power

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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
タグ: ballet, want, mystery, me
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
タグ: go, legal, long, you
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
タグ: see, sometimes, look, beautiful
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
タグ: only, political, power, you
There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
タグ: real, know, feeling, you
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