"Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read."

-- Jerome Robbins

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“Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
“If I'm not working and I'm here and bored, I'll go online and look for a new thing or kind of make up my own.”

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“Education forms the common mind.”
“If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
“I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.”
“I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.”
“The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.”

Source : "Staking Out The Globe" by David M. Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. February 21, 1988.

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