Agnes de Mille Quotes

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• Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
• 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 surface…
• We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
• 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…
• 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…
• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
• Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
• Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
• I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
• One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more…
• I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
• My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
• 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.
• Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do…
• To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours…
• No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
• The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
• The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no…
• 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.…
• Dance in the body you have.

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