Agnes de Mille Quotes

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

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• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Demon

• I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Real
  • Book
  • Serious

• To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

  

  James Whistler
  • Great
  • Picture

• The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Happy

• All it took was one conversation to know that Reebok was the right home for our team.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Home
  • Team

• I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.'

  

  Kevin McKidd

• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • May
  • Power
  • Struggle

• I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Game

• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Nice

• You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Live
  • Family
  • Future

• The real demon in my life is my father.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any 'Supernatural' demon away - but in real life, they'd have crippling co-dependency issues.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Life
  • Real
  • Driving

• They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.

  

  Jimmy Hill
  • Trying
  • Game

• Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Demon

• Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap-though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • History
  • Demon

• I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Hate
  • Demon

• Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

  

  George Packer
  • Past
  • Imagination
  • Popular

• Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

  

  Jill Flint
  • Demon

• Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

  

  J. Christopher Herold
  • Life
  • Women
  • Family

• The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Elevated

• Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Success

• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

  

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