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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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