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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."
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"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year."

"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity."

"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas."

"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."

"I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell."

"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."

"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece."

"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."

"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."
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