One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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