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" If a thing moves, it lives. "

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" Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. "

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

" I see dance as glue for a community. "

" My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. "

" The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece. "

" I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. "

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

" 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. "

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "

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" You either entertain an audience or you don't. "

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

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

" In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. "

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

" 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. "