There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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