My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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