The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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!
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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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