The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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So 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.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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