Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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To 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.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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