What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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 acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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