I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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