To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their 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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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