Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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 constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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