Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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