Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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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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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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