The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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