Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
AGNES DE MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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