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" You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. "

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" I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. "

" I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing. "

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

" I see dance as glue for a community. "

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

" My favorite audience is everybody. I worked in a drive-in theater from the time I was 8 years old until I went to college, and I'm accustomed to everybody can buy a ticket and everybody should be taken into account. "

" In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. "

" When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. "

" I do at least 75 push-ups a day. "

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

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

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

" Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them. "

" Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. "

" When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way. "

" The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. "

" You either entertain an audience or you don't. "

" In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. "

" 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 think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury. "

" 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. "

" 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. "