No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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 acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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