Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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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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