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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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