Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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