Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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