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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.

Agnes de Mille

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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
Ballet Dancer
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Harlem
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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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. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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