No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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