But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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 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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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