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.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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