So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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 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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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