Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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