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

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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. "

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

" To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving. "

" I'm obviously always interested in the dancer who's an athlete and vice versa. I expect dancers to be in condition like an athlete is and to challenge themselves in the same way, to the same physical degree. "

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

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. "

" 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. "

" I do not watch television, never have. "

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

" Work is work; wherever I'm working, I do the best I can. If the actual dollars come from investors as opposed to taxpayers and patrons, what's the difference? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If a thing moves, it lives. "

" I do at least 75 push-ups a day. "

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

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