So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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