We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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