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• 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.

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  America, People, Agonizing

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• Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

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  Artist, Next, Form

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• I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

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  Tombstone, Dancing, Dancer

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• 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.

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  Fate, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  Greed, Missing, Curiosity

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• No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

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  Men, White Man, Feet

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• Dance in the body you have.

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  Body

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• 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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  Dance, Ideas, Space

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books

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• 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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  Girl, Dance, Running

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• 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.

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  Hypnosis, Self, Giving

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

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  Heart, Cutting, Ties

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.189, New York Review of Books

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

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  Hero, Heroines, My Hero

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

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  Dance, Dancing, Toes

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

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  Way, Study, Dropping

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.78, New York Review of Books

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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

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  Dance, Giving, Modern

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