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.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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But 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.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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.
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