A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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