The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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