Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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