“Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy. ”
John Travolta (1954) American actor, dancer and singer
“I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955), p. 76
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