"Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Suzanne Farrell

#Dance Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes #Different Quotes

“I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.”
“True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.”
“The more you behave like you have the right to exist in the world without interference, the less others will question it. The power of a fait accompli is astonishing. The more people see fat bodies moving and being physical and doing whatever makes them happy in the world, without apology and without shame, the more they get used to seeing that and thinking of it as normal.”

Source : Hanne Blank (2012). “The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts”, p.48, Ten Speed Press
“I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.”
“What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution... I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that... so I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.”

Source : Interview with Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. June 13, 2005.
“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it,”

Source : "Learning More About Tangerine Tango, Pantone's Color of the Year". PopSugar Interview, www.popsugar.com. December 8, 2011.
“I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.”
“It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.”

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