Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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