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“Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it.”
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“I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.”
Source : "Twoscore and Ten". "A Home Idyl And Other Poems". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1881.
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“I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.”
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“Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.”
Source : "Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis". Book by Peter Evans, 1978.
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“Business is other people's money.”
Source : "Marguerite Ou Deux Amours". Book by Delphine de Girardin, Volume 2, 1852.
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“Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.”
Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
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“Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.”