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.
AGNES DE MILLEI think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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!
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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