Dance in the body you have.
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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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