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.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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