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.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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To 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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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