I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Dance in the body you have.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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