I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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 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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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