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Joni Mitchell once said, "I believe a total unwillingness to cooperate is what is necessary to be an artist — not for perverse reasons, but to protect your vision." Some of the most memorable skaters of all time have done just that - not co-operated.

Happy Pride Month!

"Whatever that was supposed to be, it wasn't." - Dick Button

"Good for you, Lucinda Ruh!" - Dick Button

Who run the world? Kwan.

"Where is the superb style of Gillis Grafström? The line of the body that made skating a thing of beauty?" - Ulrich Salchow, 1947

Happy Canada Day! #Canada150

Hello fellow bluenoser! I'm a caper

Waiting patiently for an influx of hot Amurican cowboys who look like Jake Gyllenhaal...

"Good for you, Lucinda Ruh!" - Dick Button

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life." - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Laetitia Hubert for President!

"To dance upon knives, to have daggers at one's heels, to wage a continued battle with the demons of unbalance." - Alan E. Murray

On the road to recovery from #CTNSC16. What's sleep?

Oh sweetie no...

"Skating's history has been marked by a lopsided preference for technical accomplishment." - Frank Loeser

"I don't skate for points. I skate for the love of skating." - Janet Lynn, The Milwaukee Journal, February 8, 1972

"Love skating for its own sake." - Janet Lynn

Have fun, don't fall in.

"I craved to be different and I was different. And I wasn't afraid to show it." - Toller Cranston

"Whatever that was supposed to be, it wasn't." - Dick Button

Today's soundtrack... Bye Felicia: The Musical

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami

"Sure I'm eccentric. But I have a heart as big as a ham!" - Margaret Brown (aka The Unsinkable Molly Brown)

“It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.” ―Toller Cranston

"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life." - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"Sacrificing considerations of art to considerations of prize-winning has serious consequences." - George Browne, Skating magazine, 1925

Happy holidays to all!

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