Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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