What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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