Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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.
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