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 MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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 want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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