To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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Theater 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.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Dance in the body you have.
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