"I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back..."

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Robert Helpmann

#Art Quotes #Hangover Quotes #Australia Quotes

“Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.”

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“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
“The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”
“No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."”
“Well you know for me, the action is the juice.”
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.”
“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”

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