When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLEThe acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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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 they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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 know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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