No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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