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title: "2 Sinister Quotes By Agnes de Mille"
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> [Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/modern-dancers-give-a-sinister-portent-about-our-times/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

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> [Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/modern-dancers-give-a-sinister-portent-about-our-times-the-dancers/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

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## Other authors on Sinister

## More by Agnes de Mille

> [I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/i-studied-the-way-i-danced-to-the-point-of-dropping/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/i-learned-three-important-things-in-college-to-use-a-library-to/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/to-dance-is-to-be-out-of-yourself-larger-more-beautiful-more-powerful/)

[Agnes De Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/modern-dancers-give-a-sinister-portent-about-our-times/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/living-is-a-form-of-not-being-sure-not-knowing-what-next-or-how-the/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/ballet-technique-is-arbitrary-and-very-difficult-it-never-becomes/)

[Agnes De Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/we-can-t-stand-silence-because-silence-induces-thinking-and-if-we/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/what-have-we-got-here-in-america-that-we-believe-we-cannot-live/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/to-make-up-a-dance-i-still-need-as-i-needed-then-a-pot-of-tea-walking/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/no-trumpets-sound-when-the-important-decisions-of-our-life-are-made/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/modern-dancers-give-a-sinister-portent-about-our-times-the-dancers/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/living-is-a-form-of-not-being-sure-not-knowing-what-next-or-how-the-2/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/friends-die-one-by-one-but-so-thank-god-do-enemies/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/the-universe-lies-before-you-on-the-floor-in-the-air-in-the/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

> [I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-de-mille/i-want-one-word-on-my-tombstone-dancer/)

[Agnes de Mille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-de-mille/)

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