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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep the second kills.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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