But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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