Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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