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.
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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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