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.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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