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 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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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