I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLEThere is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes 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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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