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.
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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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 trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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