"Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity."
"What’s interesting about you is you."
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Source: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 5: 154 (1929)
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