Michael Flatley
American step dancer
Rhythm patterns from my dance shows.
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
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Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗
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Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
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All this nonsense in the Middle East. It's hard not to think about it.
An exciting idea. I usually write for an hour or so, and then I go to sleep.
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View profile →I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.
Less work, more living.
To my father, for not telling him the truth when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and going along with the family lie that he had hepatitis, when he knew he didn’t. At the age of 17, I lacked the courage and strength to stand up for what I believed.
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
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