I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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