We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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