I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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