What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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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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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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