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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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.
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Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy; it becomes possible.
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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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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a lawyer 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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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 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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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 you perform... you are out of yourself — larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours, nightly.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Born:
September 18, 1905
Died:
October 7, 1993
(aged 88)
Bio:
Agnes George de Mille was an American dancer and choreographer.
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