Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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