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 MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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