I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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