The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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