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"I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people."
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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."
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"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"
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"There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres."
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"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"
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"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
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"There is nothing so stable as change."
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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
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"To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
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"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."
Thinking
"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."
Eye
"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings."
Success
"Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world."
Talent
"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."
Talent
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
Temple
"You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be."
Theatre
"I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it.""
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"Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed."
Husband
"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."
Building
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