Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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