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"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
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"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."
"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."
"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment."
"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
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