What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLEDancing 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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