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.
AGNES DE MILLENo 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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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The 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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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 knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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