One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEThe acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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