"At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it."

-- Jean-Georges Noverre

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“I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.”
“Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.”
“You play all your life and train all your life and then you are not playing. It's not easy to deal with. But you can't roll up in a ball and hope it goes away. You have to take it on the chin and train hard and be prepared to play. We all know the game changes in an instant and anything can happen so you have to keep the hope that comes your way.”

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“The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.”
“There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.”
“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”
“We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.”

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“Every man is his own greatest dupe.”

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