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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Theatrical Director
Harlem
New York
Important
Learned
Fifteen
Things
Justice
Drop
Memorize
Time
Learn
Diversity
Horizontal
Think
Use
Quickly
Visually
Thinking
Culture
Library
Creatively
Inspirational
Surface
Schedule
Given
College
Schedules
Three
Minutes
Asleep

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