My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLEDancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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