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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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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