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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their 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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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