Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEIn the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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