The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLEThey 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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