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.
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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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