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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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 we are not completely alone in this world.
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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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 one returns poor or weary.
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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 and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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 for the taking.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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