The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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