From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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 want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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