My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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