There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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