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" Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. "

" Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "

" I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. "

" My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. "

" I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass. "

" I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. "

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

" You either entertain an audience or you don't. "

" What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. "

" I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

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

" I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. "

" These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing. "

" A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. "

" I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. "

" Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. "

" There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. "

" Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart. "

" I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. "

" I do not watch television, never have. "

" In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. "

" It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that you can bring the curtain in and then opening the show a second time is a little bizarre as a tradition. I've always preferred to go straight through. "

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

" My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. "

" 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. "

" In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things. "