"Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing."

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Ninette de Valois

#Dance Quotes #Character Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better”
“Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.”
“I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.”
“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.”

Source : "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.
“Joe Calzaghe was using the excuse, no one knows who I am in America. Now everyone knows who I am in America.”
“Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”
“I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.”

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