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.
AGNES DE MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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