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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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