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We can't stand the silence bec...

We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

What have we got here in Ameri...

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thi

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

One of the good things about m...

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

Living is a form of not being ...

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

Modern dancers give a sinister...

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

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My heroines are part of me and...

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

If you want to understand a na...

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 George De Mille 59 quotes

Dancing is such a despised and...

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.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

great artists can be uncertain...

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, a

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

Living is a form of not being ...

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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To make up a dance, I still ne...

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

Dancers aren't made of their t...

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

Who am I?, the artist asks. An...

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, ...

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.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

I learned three important thin...

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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Then I did the simplest thing ...

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 practice mirror is to be u...

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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Dance constitutes a true recap...

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

But remember that intent is ev...

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

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To dance is to be out of yours...

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.

Agnes George De Mille 59 quotes

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