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.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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