I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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