My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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 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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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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