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.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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 in the body you have.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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