Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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