great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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