What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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 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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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