Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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