They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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