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 MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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