great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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