Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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