Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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