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" The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it. "

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" 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 don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business. "

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

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

" I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. "

" Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. "

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

" I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. "

" No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

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

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

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

" When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism. "

" 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. "

" With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. "

" Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism. "

" I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. "

" Art is an investigation. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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