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.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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 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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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