"A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed."

-- Toni Bentley

#Shoes Quotes #Ballet Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.”
“Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.”
“Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can't do. Like with New Bums and Donovan Quinn, he is seriously one of the greatest songwriters in terms of words that is alive right now. So I really wanted to play with him to experience that, to play music with these really great words.”

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“I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.”
“I'm going to beat it, ...it's hard...but I plan on being around for a long time to come.”
“When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.”
“It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.”
“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

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