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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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