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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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!
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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