I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEI think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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