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.
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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