"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."

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

Alvin Ailey

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“I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.”
“I have never in all my life considered you other people.”
“I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.”

Source : "Pop Quiz: Davey Havok Of A.f.i". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2006.
“The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”
“We lack rituals in this modern world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.”
“I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.”
“You donâ€™t try to build a wall, you donâ€™t set out to build a wall. You donâ€™t say â€˜Iâ€™m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall thatâ€™s ever been built.â€™ You donâ€™t start thereâ€¦ You say â€˜Iâ€™m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.â€™ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.”

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