So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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We 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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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