Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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