From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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