"I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way."

-- Gelsey Kirkland

#Dancing Quotes #Body Quotes #Way Quotes

“Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.”
“I love Hot Fudge Sundaes; I could die for Hot Fudge Sundaes.”
“The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.”
“The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.”
“Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.”

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“Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.”
“To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price”
“Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.”

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