We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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