We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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 I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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