But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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