No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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.
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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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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 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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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