"The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously."

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Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books

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“Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.”

Source : Steve Yegge (2012). “A Programmer's Rantings: On Programming-Language Religions, Code Philosophies, Google Work Culture, and Other Stuff”, p.368, Hyperink Inc
“If somebody trusts me, then I will reciprocate.”
“The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity".”
“Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.”

Source : Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.”
“You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.”

Source : "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.
“In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.”
“The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it.”

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