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" Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly. "

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" I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people. "

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" Counterpoint is difficult. I have been doing it since the beginning of my career. But it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite. "

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" If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before. "

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

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" I did a masterclass at the Juilliard and asked the students, 'Can you stand?' 'Sure.' 'Can you walk?' 'Sure.' They couldn't. They had never really thought about it. "

" When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And I met an Afro-American woman who was a painter. I already had some idea of what I wanted to do in life, and one of the things that interested me was painting. "

" When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. "

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