We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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