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.
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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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