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.
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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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