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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. "

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

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

" 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 don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The formal education that I received made little sense to me. "

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

" Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If a thing moves, it lives. "

" 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. "

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

" Critics should be looked at simply as commentators. "

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