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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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