One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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