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- Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their…
- My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.
- The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
- We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready…
- So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
- I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning…
- There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;…
- Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let…
- The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound…
- When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong