I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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