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"I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."
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"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."
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"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."
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"Love is a dance."
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"Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way."
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"No sane man will dance."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky,touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high."
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"I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."
Dance
"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."
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"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."
College
"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
History
"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."
Mother
"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
Audience
"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
World
"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
Experience
"The formal education that I received made little sense to me."
Education
"Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them."
Soul
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