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Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)

by Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 03, 2026 05:58AM

“There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.”
― Barbara Lazear Ascher

tags: dance, wild

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“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
― Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ”
― Dave Barry

tags: dance

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“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women

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“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.
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― Merce Cunningham

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