No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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