“I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.”
It was like I woke up when she came in…it was like diving into white-water rapids and having no desire to hang on to the side. -A
❞ I hated school, I hated school. And I didn’t realize why. I thought I was…I was, I thought there was something wrong with me for hating school, for not being able to deal with school. At the time it was ingrained in me that school was: if you’re not successful in school you’re not going to be successful in life. And the hierarchy with the subjects at school, like the arts are given no credence. And if they are, it’s false credence. So, I look back on it and and I’m angry. I’m angry about it because, you know, there might be a brilliant ballerina somewhere in school who’s being forced to do maths, and she sees it difficult. But if she’s just allowed to express whatever gifts she has to offer then she would be happy and then she could make hundreds of thousands of other people joyous for a couple of hours per night.
We we want to help you raise money [for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation] and so we have a stack of cards right here and there are different dances on them because you’re an excellent dancer from what I’ve researched. - Ellen Degeneres to Andrew Garfield (x)
