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.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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