A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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