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"I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."
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"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."
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"Love is a dance."
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"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
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"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."
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"When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance."
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"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops."
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"West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York."
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"I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day."
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"Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life."
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"For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises."
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"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."
History
"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."
Power
"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
Luxury
"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."
College
"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."
Life
"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
Dance
"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."
Woman
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."
Time
"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
People
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
Art
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