Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLELiving 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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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 don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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