Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLELiving 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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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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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance in the body you have.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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