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.
AGNES DE MILLEIf 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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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 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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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