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.
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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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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