Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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