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Bette Ford

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

Death, Losing, Play, Power, Spiritual, Winning
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I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.

Believe, Connected, Cruelty, Roots, Suffering, Views

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

Gives, Giving, Kill, Killing, Males, Technique

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.

Acknowledge, Art, Bullfighting, Leaving, Perhaps, Views

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

Bullfighting, Entirely, Imagine, Impossible, Spain

One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.

Elsewhere, Pockets, Striking, Survival, Thinking
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