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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I see dance as glue for a community. "

" Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

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

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" In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. "

" 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. "

" My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. "

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "