What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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 universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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