Beginnings
After immigrating to the United States with his family at the age of six, Draper ran away from home at the age of 17 to dig ditches at Woodstock in New York. His aunt persuaded him to turn his life around by taking an engineering course at Polytechnic Institute, but he ended up quitting after only one year. He later started to work odd jobs around New York. He was an assistant music critic, and briefly became an instructor at an Arthur Murray dance school. Paul Draper then began his extensive and mostly self-taught tap dancing career.
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Famous quotes containing the word beginnings:
“The beginnings of altruism can be seen in children as early as the age of two. How then can we be so concerned that they count by the age of three, read by four, and walk with their hands across the overhead parallel bars by five, and not be concerned that they act with kindness to others?”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)
“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)