Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLEWe 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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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