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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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