We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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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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