Destiny is made known silently.
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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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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.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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