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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Ballet Better Calf Calve Dance Education Good Harmful Head Usually
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Bodies Dance Die Expression Lying Muisc never People Truest Women
We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Face Include Ourselves Silence Stand Thinking Thought
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Cutting Fearfully Free Good Head Heart Something Strengthening Tie
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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Coin Current Did Knew Usage Want Well Worn
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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Bodies Dance Dancer Floor Journey Lie Lying Mind Mysterious Universe
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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Curiosity Farther Greed Hurried Keep Missing Our Pressing Upbeat
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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Afraid Agonizing Always Aponizing Counrry Country Forgotten People Pining Quite Right Theatre
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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Color Leisure Mad Moment Muzak Radio Silence Television
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Artist Being Entirely Form Know Next Show Sure
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Ballet Become Dance Easy Possible Technique
Destiny is made known silently.
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Destiny Known Made Silently
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Decision Important Inspirational Life Made Sound Trumpet Yoga
Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Alternate Beethoven Byword Celebrity Dance Day Decision Ending Every Exhaustion Lack People Profession Wrestled
Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance Dancer Made Passion Technique
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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College Drop Horizontal Important Inspirational Learned Library Memorize Quickly Surface Thinking Visually
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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Dance Idea Needed Pot Privacy Space Tea Walking
Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Almost Indecipherable Script Tolstoi
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Balanced Ballet Dance Faster Higher Kicked Longer Passion Poor Substitute Turned Women
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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Dance Energy Exhausting Feet Geographic Happen Hour Process REquired Roughly Simultaneously Tennis Winning Work Writing
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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Correction Dance Fault Mirror Practice Used
Dance in the body you have.
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Body Dance
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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Alone Completly Dancing Hypnosis Individual Isolated Jiggling Kind Self World
Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Assumed Dancer Girl Head House People Spoo Visit
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Artist Coin Decision Great Solution Struggling Uncertain
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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Attention Dance Dancing Folk Listen Look Nation Pay Politician Song Understand
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dead Die Enemy Friend God One Thank

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