Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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