The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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 choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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