So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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