Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dancers 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.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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