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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.
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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Harlem
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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 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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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