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.
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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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 don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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