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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound. "

" I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines. "

" 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. "

" I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated. "

" 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 have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys. "

" 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. "

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

" I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it! "

" To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "