The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Tolstoi’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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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