But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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