Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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