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.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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