The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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