I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLETo make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance in the body you have.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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