What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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