I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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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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