We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dance in the body you have.
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