When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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