"The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion."

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Merce Cunningham

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“Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.”
“We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.”
“I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.”
“It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.”
“A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.”
“Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.”
“For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.
“For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.”

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