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" I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it. "

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" 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 don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. "

" 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. "

" It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.' "

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

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

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

" Proust writes, he remembers, physically. He depends on his body to give him the information that will bring him to the past. His book is called 'In Search of Lost Time,' and he does it through the senses. He does it through smell. He does it through feeling. He does it through texture. It is all physically driven, that language. "

" The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. "

" 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. "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

" Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult. "

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

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

" When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.' "

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

" To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. "

" 'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people. "

" We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself. "

" I do not watch television, never have. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? "

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

" I used to say to myself, 'Well, in the old days everybody danced because they loved to dance, and there was none of this professional garbage going on about how much can you get for this or that or the other, or any of the kinds of things that insecurity can sometimes promote. Sometimes it's for the wrong reasons.' "