The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEThere is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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