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.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dance in the body you have.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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