Samuel L. Lewis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not what we think or say but what we do shall avail - on with the dance.
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Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel is for real.
-- Samuel L. Lewis
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Think it over, think it under.
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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.
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All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
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