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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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