From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLEI had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their 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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Theater 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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