Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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