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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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