No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected 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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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