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!
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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