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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.

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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Idea
Stills
Pot
Still
Tea
Ideas
Privacy
Need
Dance
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Walking

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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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