Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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In 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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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