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.
AGNES DE MILLESo that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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