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.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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