Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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They 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.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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