Why Not Me?

I keep seeing pictures of Sophie with her new puppy and i also saw a leather jacket with a wolf on it so i had to draw the stark sisters in a modern au because i miss them already 🐺💕

Famous artists on FRED ASTAIRE

“The history of dance on film begins with Astaire.” -Gene Kelly

“What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It’s no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he’s too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It’s too hard to face.” -Mikhail Baryshnikov

“How do you think those routines were accomplished? With mirrors?… Well, I thought I knew what concentrated work was before I met Fred, but he’s the limit. Never satisfied until every detail is right, and he will not compromise. No sir! What’s more, if he thinks of something better after you’ve finished a routine, you do it over.” -Ginger Rogers

“He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.” -Rudolph Nureyev

“Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person.” -Connie Willis

“We are, of course, very lucky. His gift, captured in the movies is one we can all share forever. He was, he is, and he always will be our never-ending legend.” -Mikhail Baryshnikov

“ He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.” -George Balanchine

“When I was in the Soviet Union recently I was being interviewed by a newspaperman and he said, “Which dancers influenced you the most?” and I said, “Oh, well, Fred Astaire.” He looked very surprised and shocked and I said, “What’s the matter?” He said, “Well, Mr. Balanchine just said the same thing.“” -Jerome Robbins

“When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of hard work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.” –Alan Rickman

“We are, of course, very “Last summer I went to Italy to work on a film and when I arrived in Rome there was a big Fred Astaire festival going on. There were big posters of Fred plastered all over the city. But what impressed me most was an article in one of the leading magazines there, with a picture of Fred on the cover and the titles was “America Que Bela Era” which means how beautiful America was or used to be. And it wanted to say that he personified what was quality and beauty of that era. And I think that we owe Fred a debt of gratitude for the image that he portraits to the world of what this country is good on.” -Hermes Pan

www.iwontdance.com

me two hours after i should have gone to bed: time to solve the jonbenet ramsey case

yes its ME! the sleepiest girl alive

stop your addiction to being right

good advice for everyone who isn’t me

not to be fake deep but… I wanna dance with somebody, I wanna feel the heat with somebody… I wanna dance with somebody… somebody who loves me

If you think you’re festive just remember Greta Garbo had an inflatable snowman up in her living room 365 days a year

This was first mentioned in a 1990 New York times article, shortly after Garbo died:

The snowman and several other items in Garbo’s estate were sold in December 2012, at an auction organized by her grand-nephew through Julien’s. All items from the auction are still viewable in the online catalog, including the adorable snowman itself— which fetched a price of nearly $2000.  Here’s what it looked like in her home:

Also, I don’t know what that NYT article means by “lapse in taste”— I think the little snowman is so whimsical and wonderful and looks perfectly at home. ♥

no offense but mental illness has robbed me of so much

me: [vibrating slightly because I had too much caffeine] everything in the world is my fault

Elizabeth Taylor, c.1953

Donna Reed, 1946

god should have taken me instead of vine