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 MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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