Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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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 they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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