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"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."
Dance

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

"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it."
Music

"Dance is so joyous."
Dance

"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."
Birthday

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

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

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

"I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form."
Life

"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."
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