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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.
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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Dies
Entirely
Littles
Wrong
Discovery
May
Faith
Guess
Little
Moment
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Take
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Creativity
Never
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Life
Next
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Leap
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
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