Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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