I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their 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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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