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" Censorship is the height of vanity. "
Height
Censorship
Vanity
" Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. "
Language
Dance
Body
" Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. "
Heart
Kind
Graph
" Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. "
Gold
Fire
Adversity
" First we have to believe, and then we believe. "
First
Believe
Then
" Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. "
Because
Dancers
Great
" I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. "
Behavior
Tree
Nature
" Learn by practice. "
Practice
Learn
" Misery is a communicable disease. "
Misery
Disease
" No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. "
Ahead
Behind
Artist
" Nothing is more revealing than movement. "
More
Movement
Revealing
" Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. "
Obstacles
Practice
Faith
" Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. "
Need
Some
Want
" Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. "
Place
Act
Before
" The body is a sacred garment. "
Body
Sacred
Health
" The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. "
Art
Body
Dance
" The body never lies. "
Body
Never
Lies
" The body says what words cannot. "
Body
Words
Cannot
" The only sin is mediocrity. "
Mediocrity
Only
Sin
" There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. "
Life
You
Unique
" Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. "
Dance
Think
Small
" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "
Space
Me
Man
" We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. "
Dance
Learning
Live
" You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. "
You
Lost
Then
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