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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
Agnes de Mille
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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
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More quotes by Agnes de Mille
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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
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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.
Agnes de Mille
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
Agnes de Mille
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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.
Agnes de Mille
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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.
Agnes de Mille
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes de Mille
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
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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.
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