great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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 aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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