"Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow.""

-- Misty Copeland

#Ballet Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Stage Quotes

“The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.”
“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.”
“Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.”
“To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.”
“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”
“Tonight, no matter what you're going through... backtrack and remember all the places where God has been so faithful before in your life. And know. Know with assurance. And boldness. And confidence. He is the same faithful God.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 27, 2014
“The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.”
“I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.”

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