The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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