I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLEWe 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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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