We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEThey 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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