The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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