Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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