From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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