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.
AGNES DE MILLETheater 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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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