We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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