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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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