My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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