"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."

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

Suzanne Farrell

#Commitment Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Dancing Quotes

“I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.”
“We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.”
“Busy people are never busybodies.”
“Shutup,Caine," Edilio said in a voice so soft it was almost a whisper. Anger, a dangerous anger, flared in Caine. "Who are you to talk to me that way?" "You've been the problem, Caine. From the start. You're the one who kept us from ever really being able to unite, to fight this thing, You and your stupid need to control everyone. Don't you come here now all sheepish, all head hanging down and tell me you're scared." Edilio stabbed a finger in Caine's chest. It was such a un-Edilio moment it surprised them both.”
“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”

Source : Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.201, Library of America
“The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.”
“It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.”
“Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.”

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