No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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