"I'd rather dance than eat."

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

Eleanor Powell

“A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.”
“America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.”
“What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.”
“I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.”

Source : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2013.
“I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.”
“The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.”

Source : "The Annotated Alice". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction), 1960.
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”

Source : "Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.
“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”

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