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"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."
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"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club."
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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
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"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned."
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"I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again."
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"No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences."
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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
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"Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well."
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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."
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"Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected."
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"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
Luxury
"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."
Soul
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
People
"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."
Performance
"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."
Life
"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
World
"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."
Mother
"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
Study
"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."
Woman
"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."
College
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