Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEFind 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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