One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEEmily 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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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 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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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