My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLEIn the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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