I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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