Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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