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.
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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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