I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Dancers 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.
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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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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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