“I want people to be taken away to another planet when they watch me skate. I want them to be transported into a dream world.”

— Johnny Weir

Source: Behind The Spangles, Weir Is A Man In Full, Trey Graham, National Public Radio, 2010-02-26 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124121023&ft=1&f=1008,

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