But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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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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