I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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