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Agnes George de Mille Quotes


“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 de Mille
'Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." ~Agnes de Mille

"Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion." ~Agnes de Mille (1905--1993)

"I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorise 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." ~Agnes de Mille (1905-1993)

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of life are made. Destiny is made known silently." ~Agnes de Mille

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"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie." ~Agnes de Mille

"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 de Mille