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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance. "

" I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. "

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

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

" I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. "

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

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

" People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' "

" 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. "

" Things change all the time, so why do people make such a philosophical to-do that things are constantly in transition? "

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

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

" A commission is an invitation to fall in love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways. "

" Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. "