What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dance in the body you have.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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