What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLELiving 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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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 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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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