A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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