Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson
Dancer and choreographer who collaborated with such artists as Lady Gaga, Usher, and Missy Elliott.
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth15 March 1979
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The heart sags. My footprints forget me. I don’t think anything will ever be the same. This is the edge of the cliff and you can’t move, can’t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars you can see where you’ll be in an hour. Raindrops collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us. It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands. Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.
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Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
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I am devoted to detective novels. They make such a nice change from my work.
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I was so focused, I let nothing, neither rain nor the lightning stop me,
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It's been surreal. There's no way to describe it. One thing after another. You finally think things are slowing down, and something else happens. It's been a fun year, to say the least.
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They do it every five years, and then they have to come back and do it again.
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That's the first time I've ever met him. That's the man I want to be,
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That's about as high as it gets as far as honors. It's tremendous. You can't expect something like that going into any year. To wind up with an honor like that is special. It's a great way to go out.
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