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" I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. "

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" When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

" 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 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. "

" I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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 rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. "

" Kids should be encouraged to compete. "

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