No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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