The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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 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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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 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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dance in the body you have.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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