I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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 universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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