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 MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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