Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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