A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de MilleMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes de Millegreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. 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. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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