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!
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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