"Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit."

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Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

Judith Jamison

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“Itâ€™s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. Itâ€™s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
“One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.119, Pan Macmillan
“Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.”

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“When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.”
“I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.”
“I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.”
“When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.”
“A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you're not comfortable with.”

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