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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

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
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Tombstone
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Dancing

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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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