To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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