Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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 knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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 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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance in the body you have.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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