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.
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 want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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 choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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