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" Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. "

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" When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?' "

" 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. "

" No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them. "

" I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it! "

" Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. "

" 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. "

" Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. "

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

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

" I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. "

" Kids should be encouraged to compete. "

" I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. "

" 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. "

" I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated. "

" I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time. "

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

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

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

" I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. "

" I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "

" Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. "

" I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys. "

" The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. "

" I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way. "