Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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