Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLEDance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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To 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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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