What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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