No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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Dance in the body you have.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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