We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Dancers 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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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