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 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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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