We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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