Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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