Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance in the body you have.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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