The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.
No, dance is not a monster. The stage is monstrous, not in the negative sense but on the grandiose side. And dance is sacred as something emotionally strong happens.
My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.
The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.