The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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