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.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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 acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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