One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Ours 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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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