The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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