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Graeme Murphy

"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."

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Donna Grant

"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."

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Donna Grant

"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."

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Donna Grant

"I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know."

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Donna Grant

"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage."

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Donna Grant

"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."

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Donna Grant

"With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me."

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Donna Grant

"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."

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Donna Grant

"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."

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Donna Grant

"I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too."

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Donna Grant

"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."

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Graeme Murphy
"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."

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Graeme Murphy
"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."

Work

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Graeme Murphy
"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads."

Entertainment

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Graeme Murphy
"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography."

Now

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Graeme Murphy
"We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with."

Nature

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Graeme Murphy
"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."

Music

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Graeme Murphy
"It's not a company of exponents of my style."

Company

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Graeme Murphy
"Dance is so joyous."

Dance

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Graeme Murphy
"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."

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Graeme Murphy
"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."

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