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.
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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces 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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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