When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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