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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."
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"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."
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"I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit."
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"The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him."
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"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."
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"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
Work

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

"Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography."
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"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."
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"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."
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"It's not a company of exponents of my style."
Company

"Dance is so joyous."
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"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."
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"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."
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