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.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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