We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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