What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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