I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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