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 MILLETheater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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