In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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