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

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

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"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, Dance, Ballet, Beginning

"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."

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

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"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."

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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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"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."

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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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"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."

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"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."

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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."

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