No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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