The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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