What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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 think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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