All Agnes de Mille Quotes
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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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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