Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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