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.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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