When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.
Once upon a time the English knew who they were.
Dancing is my gift and my life. . . God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.
God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
Where there is no heart there is no art.
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.
We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record
I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.
Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.