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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.
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
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Theatrical Director
Harlem
New York
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America
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People
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Forgotten
Theater
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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