Fred Astaire (1899–1987) American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter
George Balanchine, quoted in Thomas, Bob. Astaire, the Man, The Dancer. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1985. ISBN 0297784021 p. 33.
“…study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
excerpt from letter to J. M. Szabados (30 November 1965), quoted in "Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track The Letters of Richard P. Feynman" (2005) by Michelle Feynman and Carl Feynman, p. 206
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