Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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