Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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 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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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