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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.

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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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