But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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