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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

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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 think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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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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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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