Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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