What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers 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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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