I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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