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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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