Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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