I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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 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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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