There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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