No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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 they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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