Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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 aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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