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.
AGNES DE MILLEIf you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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