What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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