Ibrahim Farah quotes
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Get your body out of the way and let your spirit soar!
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Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
-- Ibrahim Farah
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.
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We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
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Dance in the body you have.
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I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
