Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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