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.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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