Agnes De Mille Dance Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Dance in the body you have.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.

Benjamin Carson

#6. others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit,

James D. Tabor

#7. The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

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#8. Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

Josemaria Escriva

#9. Targaryen wed Khal Drogo with

George R R Martin

#10. 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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#11. Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

Dan Millman

#12. 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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#13. The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.

Daryl Gregory

#14. It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.

Donna McKechnie

#15. The only thing worse than a perilous adventure is a boring one.

Lemony Snicket

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

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#17. For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us.

Kobe Bryant

#18. Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

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#19. She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.

Cassandra Clare

#20. When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

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#21. I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.

Fennel Hudson

#22. Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

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