Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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