What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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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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