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.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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.
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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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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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