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                [Quotes]

           {Everyday}

[]   "to be nobody- but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battles which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- e.e. cummings

[]   "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.-Johann von Goethe

[]   "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."-Pamela Vaull Starr

[]   "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes

[]   "Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven"-Unknown

[]   "True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
-Dave Tyson Gentry

[]   "He who feels it knows it more"

[]   "If you want to be happy, be." -Leo Tolstoy

[]   "'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best,' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. "-A.A. Milne

[]   "Nothing happens unless first a dream."
-Carl Sandburg

        {Dance}

[]   “Dance was more than a thing I did. It was my definition and my strength. It could reach out and bring me back to myself. It made me real and whole and strong. No one could take it or keep me from it. And no one, expect maybe another dancer, could understand how it felt.” - Davida Hurwin

[]   “I began a dance for my soul. It wanted no audience, no approval, no applause. It wanted only itself” - Davida Hurwin

[]   "If the dancer dances everything is there."   -Merce Cunningham

[]   “My father was a great influence on me. He said to me one day while I was dancing, 'Son, that's fine. You do it very well. But don't do what other people do. Do your own thing.'"   -Fayard Nicholas

[] "I can't even walk in heels, let alone dance....Perhaps one reason there have not been as many great women tap dancers is that women were always trying to compete in inferior shoes." - Anita Feldman

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