Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Destiny is made known silently.
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