“If you have been given the gift of a talent you are very lucky. Use it well.”
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” – Merce Cunningham
They taught us that courage isn’t the absence of fear, it is forging ahead despite your fear.” – Sirius Black
“Love what you do and do what you love otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.” – Sir Allan Sugar
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
“Mathematics may not teach us to add love or subtract hate but it gives us hope that every problem has a solution” – Anon
“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch”- Ivern Ball
“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” – Sanford Meisner
“Great things don’t come from comfort zones” – Roy T Bennett
“Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration” – Rudolf Nureyev
“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we are from, everyone loves music” – Billy Joel
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour and some style” – Maya Angelou
“The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret”
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul” – Martha Graham
“I have not failed. I’ve successfully discovered 10,000 things that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“Teach me and I forget, Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn” – Benjamin Franklin
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Theodore Roosevelt.
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.” Ella Fitzgerald.