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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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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
"Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences."
"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced."
"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."
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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."
"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
"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."
"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary."
"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."
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
"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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