I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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