I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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