Agnes de Mille Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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My mother was a Jewish General Patton.
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Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!
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I was small but slow as a college tackle.
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The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.
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The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
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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.
