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"Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
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"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."
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"Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?"
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"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."
Creativity
"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Risk
"You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get criticized? Nonentities! Only the dead escape criticism."
Criticism
"Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat."
Fame
"I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?"
Sensitivity
"Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married."
Marriage
"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."
Art
"In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving."
Friendship
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."
Woman
"There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes."
Crisis
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