Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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