Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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