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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.
To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.
To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

— Robert Fulghum Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)

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I make art in and for the experience itself — to satisfy a need to express myself in a creative, colorful, non-verbal way.

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My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life.

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They've added an important dimension to the lives of the young people of their town — that lightness of being that belongs to dancers.

Love the battle between chaos and imagination.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)

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