I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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