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

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" 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. "

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" Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way. "

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

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

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" Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. "

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

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

" 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'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. "

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" I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "