One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLETheater 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.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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