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.
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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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