There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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