"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"

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

Rudolf Nureyev

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“Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with parents who confidently assert the reasons for their demands and enforce reasonable rules. Even if there are a few rough spots, relationships between parents and young children run more smoothly when the parent, rather than the child, is in control.”
“I can only gesture at what makes a story good.”
“Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.”

Source : Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.170, Penguin
“I've done four records now, and your idea of what it's going to be for that record is never what it ends up being, so there's cynicism in my outlook but there's also some positive outlook in it, like, "I can't really control anything outside of what it is that I do, so I'm going to do my very best and put my best foot forward in everything that I do." The music and whatever else comes outside of that, if something great comes out of it, awesome, if not, I'm going to make another record and another one after that. That's really all I can do.”
“Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.62, Bantam
“As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.”
“We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.”
“For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.”

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