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" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

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" Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has. "

" It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can. "

" I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. "

" Dance is just like film in that it allows for thoughts in movement. "

" Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. "

" Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. "

" If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance. "

" There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. "

" The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body. "

" I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention. "

" In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. "

" At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do. "

" My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' "

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

" Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. "

" I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. "

" A dancer's life is all about repetition. "

" It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience. "

" There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. "

" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "

" I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action. "

" After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. "

" I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. "

" In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry. "

" Kids should be encouraged to compete. "

" I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. "

" Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. "

" I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it. "

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "

" I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree. "