“It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.”

I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.

The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it.

But where’s the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.

Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement.

The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

Since the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.

Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life.

We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification.

Maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

Where no girl is denied access to education, for instance.

Se oAnd I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.f sex is enraging.

All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain – and pretty much nothing else.

But it doesn’t change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step.

I never really did any disco dancing.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

The urge to transform one’s appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.” –Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.

We didn’t have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.