"You live as long as you dance."

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

Rudolf Nureyev

“Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.”
“The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.”
“Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.
“The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.”
“Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”

Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.
“In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't important”
“Don't talk - keep it in your heart.”
“As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.”

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