Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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