Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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