Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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