Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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