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.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat 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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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