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.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I 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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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