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"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."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
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"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."
History
"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."
Power
"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
Study
"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."
Education
"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
People
"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."
Life
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."
Time
"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."
Life
"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."
Dance
"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."
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