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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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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.
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
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