No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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