What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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