Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
Dancing is my obsession. My life.
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
What brought me to the theater, no matter you're a Jew or a Russian or Armenian or Latvian, are suddenly illuminated by stage light and one beautiful image of dance.
He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.
Let's just hug already," he says. Keeping one hand firm on Caleb's arm, I wrapped my free arm around Zeke, and he does the same. When we break apart, I pull Caleb down the alley, and can't resist calling back, "I'll miss you. " "You too, sweetie!" He grins, and his teeth are white in the twilight. They are the last thing I see of him before I have to turn and set out at a trot for the train.
Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.
Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra