The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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