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.
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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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