What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected 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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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