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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.
Agnes de Mille
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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
Ballet Dancer
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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