Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes De Mille
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES MILLE « Un voyage de mille lieues commence toujours par un premier pas. »
LAO TSEU I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON Une seule parole riche de sens qui procure la paix quand on l'entend vaut mieux que les mille mots d...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA De celui qui dans la bataille a vaincu mille milliers d'hommes et de celui qui s'est vaincu lui-mêm...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLE Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin...
AGNES DE MILLE The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES DE MILLE No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLE Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgot...
AGNES DE MILLE To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory...
AGNES DE MILLE The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLE The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figur...
AGNES DE MILLE Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And...
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 ...
AGNES DE MILLE ...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world crac...
AGNES DE MILLE To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glor...
AGNES DE MILLE Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin...
AGNES DE MILLE When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes...
AGNES DE MILLE ...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracke...
AGNES DE MILLE The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLE Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes...
AGNES MILLE A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES MILLE The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES MILLE The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES MILLE Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And...
AGNES MILLE The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES MILLE No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES MILLE The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES MILLE ...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world crac...
AGNES MILLE The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
AGNES GEORGE DE MILLE We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a c...
NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA We are living in perilous times when the hearts and souls of men are sorely tried. Never before has ...
FULTON J. SHEEN These dancers are our heroes.
CARLY PROPER It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
HENRY A. WALLACE You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De M...
STEVE ERICKSON They used a picture that was wrong. There's nothing sinister about it.
HOWARD KALOOGIAN The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE I sensed a mutual indifference behind polite smiles and had the overwhelming impression that, more a...
KRZYSZTOF KIEśLOWSKI Self-parody is the first portent of age.
LARRY MCMURTRY Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'
DONNA MCKECHNIE I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
JOSEPHINE BAKER Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be d...
ALVIN AILEY You live as long as you dance.
RUDOLF NUREYEV Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
ZACH WOODLEE In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's jus...
ZACH WOODLEE I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
ZACH WOODLEE I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is,...
ZACH WOODLEE I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet a...
YUAN YUAN TAN I have learned to be patient.
YUAN YUAN TAN I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.
YUAN YUAN TAN I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it tak...
YUAN YUAN TAN I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
YUAN YUAN TAN My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
YUAN YUAN TAN I have never gotten my nails done.
YUAN YUAN TAN My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.
YUAN YUAN TAN I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
YUAN YUAN TAN I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of...
YUAN YUAN TAN I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to fin...
YUAN YUAN TAN I remember watching Audrey Hepburn dancing in movies, and I was inspired by how graceful she looked,...
YUAN YUAN TAN For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautif...
YUAN YUAN TAN I own the complete DVD set of all the Audrey Hepburn movies ever made.
YUAN YUAN TAN I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are speci...
YUAN YUAN TAN If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The ...
YUAN YUAN TAN Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
YUAN YUAN TAN I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
YUAN YUAN TAN I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ...
JUDITH JAMISON I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doi...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
WAYNE MCGREGOR Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
WAYNE MCGREGOR Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I...
WAYNE MCGREGOR 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, bu...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used be...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get peop...
WAYNE MCGREGOR With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They fee...
WAYNE MCGREGOR My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual...
WAYNE MCGREGOR Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
WAYNE MCGREGOR I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to ...
WAYNE MCGREGOR I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound thing...
TED SHAWN I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and e...
TED SHAWN Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
TED SHAWN I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the fu...
KAREN KAIN Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
KAREN KAIN Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
KAREN KAIN There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if t...
JOSEPHINE BAKER No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shel...
CARRIE ANN INABA I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
JOSEPHINE BAKER
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AGNES REPPLIER Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of esc...
AGNES OBEL Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
AGNES GUND Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's ...
AGNES OBEL I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your ...
AGNES OBEL The value of art is in the observer.
AGNES MARTIN I'm not into having a pedigree dog.
AGNES OBEL When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEY In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie ...
AGNES GUND One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
AGNES MARTIN For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not lik...
AGNES BRUCKNER I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new ima...
AGNES VARDA Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDA So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There wer...
AGNES SMEDLEY Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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