What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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 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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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