Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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