So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
AGNES DE MILLEIf you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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