From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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