We 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!
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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 induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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