great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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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 they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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