Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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.
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Dance in the body you have.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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