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“If you believe that the show you’re making will improve the world, there’s nothing saying that your goals and self-interests and someone else’s goals and interests have to be mutually exclusive. They can align.”

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Book:The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century

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“She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of this universal homage and admiration, of the desires she had aroused, of the completeness of a victory so dear to her feminine heart.”

Fun Dance Femininity

Book:The Necklace

Source: The Necklace

“Dance critics all over the world have called my body moves, “Sculpturesque,” “As full of motion as a Rodin statue,” and “Like watching Helen Keller eat Jell-O with her elbows.” My dancing is so still and silent that it belongs on a shelf in a library, next to other great literature.”

Humor Funny Literature Dancing Dance Library Absurd Nonsense

Book:94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

Source: 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Then he gives me his quicksilver smile, the kind that makes me feel as though we are friends conspiring together. 'Since you're in a benevolent mood, perhaps you'll also dance with me.' My surprise must be evident. 'Why?' He grins. 'To celebrate you continuing with this quest. Because we're at a party. So that Queen Annet believes we've got nothing to hide.' 'Do we have something to hide?' I ask. He smiles wider, giving me a tug toward the revellers. 'Always.”

Dance Holly Black Smiling The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Hide Oak Oak Greenbriar Asking To Dance

Book:The Stolen Heir

Source: The Stolen Heir

“Some songs should be silent. They would be more danceable if they were ear camouflaged.”

Humor Song Silence Music Dancing Dance Songs Camouflage

Book:I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“I dance like both my shoes are nailed to the wall. It goes way beyond mere performance and into the realm of art. I am the Rodin of the music world.”

Art Humor Music Dancing Dance Shoes Sculpture Surreal Performance Rodin

Book:There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Someone poisoned the High King, and he is going to laugh and dance himself to death in front of a Court that will veer between delight and disgust. They will think him ridiculous as his heart stops.”

Death Dance Ridiculous Holly Black Laugh The Folk Of The Air Cardan Greenbriar Cardan The Wicked King Poisoned

Book:The Wicked King

Source: The Wicked King

“The sun does not rise in the sky in loneliness; we are with him. The moon would be lost in isolation if we did not greet her with song. The stars dance together, and we dance with them.”

Song Stars Sun Loneliness Moon Singing Dancing Dance Star

Book:An Acceptable Time

Source: An Acceptable Time

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