Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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 universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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