Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLETheater 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.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEIn the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLESo that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEBut all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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