Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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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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