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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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