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.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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