Rumi Quotes
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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My first vocation was dance.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
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There's lots of things you pull out lipstick for.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
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It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.
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I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
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I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.
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Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs. Or if the guy doesn't say anything when you walk out with a new top and the guy has no idea why you're mad at him. So of course, women are complicated.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
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Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
