"For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind."

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

Rudolf Nureyev

#Expression Quotes #Mind Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”
“We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.”

Source : Jenny Colgan (2005). “The Boy I Loved Before: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan
“By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.”

Source : "Speech to the National Convention". February 05, 1794.
“You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding." He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower." "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms.”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
“Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.”
“Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.”
“It's ok to say, 'this is what I want' and go after it.”

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