Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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