In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance in the body you have.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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