What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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