Top 49 Mille Quotes
#1. We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul est la cible)
Charles De Leusse
#2. You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
Steve Erickson
#3. Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.
Lawrence Block
#4. I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
Gloria Swanson
#5. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#6. Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life
James De Mille
#7. Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
Agnes De Mille
#8. No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes De Mille
#9. My only market analysis was to look around and see that, in one way or another, most watches are inspired by watches that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. If I wanted a watch like that, I'd much rather buy the real thing at auction than a replica.
Richard Mille
#10. Dance constitutes a true recapturing of ... freedom and childish play.
Agnes De Mille
#11. Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
Agnes De Mille
#12. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#13. Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
Agnes De Mille
#14. My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
Agnes De Mille
#15. No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
Agnes De Mille
#16. A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes De Mille
#17. The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.
Richard Mille
#18. Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
Agnes De Mille
#19. Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down ... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
Agnes De Mille
#20. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#21. There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
Agnes De Mille
#22. If you want a watch with diamonds on the bezel, you don't need me.
Richard Mille
#24. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#25. I'm crazy about cars, about boats, about airplanes, about anything mechanical - I'm just a boy, really, and my clients are like boys, too.
Richard Mille
#26. Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
Agnes De Mille
#27. I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and amazement.
Richard Mille
#28. The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes De Mille
#29. 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
#30. Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes De Mille
#31. People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.
Richard Mille
#33. To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
Agnes De Mille
#34. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#35. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#36. 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
#37. I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.
Richard Mille
#38. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#39. 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 De Mille
#40. The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes De Mille
#41. 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 De Mille
#42. I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
Agnes De Mille
#43. Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
Agnes De Mille
#44. 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
#45. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#46. 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.
Agnes De Mille
#47. 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 De Mille
#48. Will you stay here? No. Will you go back? You can't. We must, therefore, go on. That's is our only hope.
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.
Poverty, sicknes, and death are evils; but the worst of all evils is unrequited love.
James De Mille
#49. I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.
Richard Mille
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