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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
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
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Theatrical Director
Harlem
New York
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Women
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Bodies
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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 and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
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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 had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep the second kills.
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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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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. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
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