"Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns."

-- Nina Ananiashvili

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“If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.”
“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”

Source : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press
“The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.”
“The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.”
“At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.”
“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”
“I used to skate a lot when I was a kid. I loved it and was quite good. When I came back to London in around '85, I got really into skating again. But at the time, it had no influence from hip-hop. It was just thrash rock, hardcore rock, and skulls and all black - that kind of style. In Japan, the skaters were also strictly into rock culture, too, but I was coming from the hip-hop side, so for a while it was difficult to mix both interests.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.”

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