When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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