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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.
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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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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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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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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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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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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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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