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.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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