I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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 acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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