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Siobhan Davies

"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."

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"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."

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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

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"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"

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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."

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"We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight."

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"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

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"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

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"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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"They should be working, and there isn't enough work."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
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"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."
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"There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started."
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"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."
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"They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers."
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