My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
AGNES DE MILLEFind 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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