"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain."

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Source : "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

Suzanne Farrell

#Pain Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Dancing Quotes

“I do believe it's possible to play a lot without overplaying. It's when a musician becomes too self-centred that it becomes problematic. You need to be aware of how what you're doing is affecting everyone else, and that's something young musicians often forget. Playing in a band is a shared experience. It's about what everyone is doing together.”
“The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.”

Source : "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.
“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”
“Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?”
“Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.”

Source : Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
“Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.”
“In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.”

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