great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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