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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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"With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal."

"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."

"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."

"To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up."

"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."

"It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin."

"A faint smile played on his lips. "Obedience does not come naturally to you, does it?""No...sir""I must take some blame for that, I suppose. The sea does not like to be restrained."

"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."

"Only a changed person can live according to the law."

"Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections."
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"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."

"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."

"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."

"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me."

"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."

"Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work."

"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."

"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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