A Quote by Simon Boswell
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."
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The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.
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