A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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