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"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."

"Dance, as if nobody is watching. Love, as if you have never been hurt before."

"Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically."

"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."

"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance."
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"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love."


"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."


"Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe."


"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."


"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us."


"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion."


"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
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