"I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,"

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Source : "Teen dancer Michaela DePrince", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

Michaela DePrince

#People Quotes #Dancer Quotes #Black Quotes

“I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.”
“The left has lost the common touch.”
“How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)”

Source : Title of book (1952)
“I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced, from the ground up. I wanted to build a character. I feel like point of view is a really crucial thing in the story, and that you need to build up the emotional building blocks, so that you can experience all the other emotions in a very specific way, rather than just experiencing it in an intellectual way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.”
“Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it's not possible are the people who decided to settle.”
“And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."”
“Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and I have nothing to give ye!" He honestly thought it mattered.”

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