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Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.

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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Ballet, Calves, Dance, Dancer, Good, Head

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Dance, Lie, Lying, Music, People, Women

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Balanced, Ballet, Dance, Higher, Passion, Substitutes

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

Hero, Heroes, Heroines, Know, My Hero

Dance in the body you have.

Body, Dance

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down. . . and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

Kiss Me, Kissing, Leaned, Romantic Love, Thing, World

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

Dance, Ideas, Space, Pot, Walking, Make

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Bandage, Cutting, Fearfully, Heart, Ties

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.

Creativity, Dark, Faith, Knowing, Life, Living

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.

College, Inspirational, Memorize, Minutes, Thinking, Visually

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.

Care, Correct, Fate, People, Think, Thinking

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Dropping, Point, Study, Way

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Dance, Dancers, Giving, Modern, Sinister

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

Attention, Dance, Dancing, Getter

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Ballet, Dance, Easy, Technique

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

Dancer, Dancers, Passion, Technique

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.

Dance, Faults, Figure, Friend, Mirrors, Practice

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Dancer, Dancing, Tombstone, Word

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

Childish, Dance, Freedom, Play, True

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.

Giving, Hypnosis, Isolated, Look, Self, Sinister

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