Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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