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

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

" There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do. "

" My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' "

" Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once. So let's see how much we can encompass. "

" I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action. "

" These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing. "

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do. "

" 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. "

" Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive. "

" I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. "

" When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. "