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" 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! "

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" When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful. "

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" 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.' "

" I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. "

" You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. "

" 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. "

" What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about. "

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

" My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account. "

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

" 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. "

" The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. "

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

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

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

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" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" 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. "

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

" Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. "

" Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. "

" 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. "

" If a thing moves, it lives. "

" I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night. "

" 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. "

" It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. "

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