The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

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"Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

Self-awareness

"Dancers are made, not born."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

Personal Growth

"There comes a moment in a young artist’s life when he know she has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

Personal Growth

"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ambition

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

Joy

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

Creativity

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity