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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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
Dancer
Theatrical Director
Harlem
New York
Toes
Dancing
Dance
Second
Getter
Attention
Pointe
Dandy
Screaming
More quotes by Agnes de Mille
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.
Agnes de Mille
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.
Agnes de Mille
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
Agnes de Mille
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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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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.
Agnes de Mille
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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 that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Agnes de Mille
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes de Mille
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.
Agnes de Mille
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 it without that passion.
Agnes de Mille
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
Agnes de Mille
Dance in the body you have.
Agnes de Mille
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
Agnes de Mille
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
Agnes de Mille
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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