Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLE
AGNES DE MILLE
Agnes de Mille on creativity
Agnes de Mille59 quotes“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.”
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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!
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille 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.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Dance in the body you have.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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