I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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