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 MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Destiny is made known silently.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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