Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
AGNES DE MILLEIn the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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