One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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