Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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 think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Dance in the body you have.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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 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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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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!
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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