We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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