I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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