What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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