Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEWe 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!
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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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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