The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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