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.
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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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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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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