"The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop."

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

Rudolf Nureyev

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“Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings”
“We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.”
“No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.”
“He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. "My God," he said. "What happened?" "I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.”
“I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher”
“After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.”

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