Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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