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Graeme Murphy

"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."

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Aberjhani

"Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!"

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Aberjhani

"In fact-Dr. Sheppard!"

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Aberjhani

"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."

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Aberjhani

"You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!""Permission denied."

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Aberjhani

"It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama."

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Aberjhani

"Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid."

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Aberjhani

"One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath."

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Aberjhani

"Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all."

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Aberjhani

"I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London."

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Aberjhani

"We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look."

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Graeme Murphy
"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."

Dance

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

Now

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

Music

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

Entertainment

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Graeme Murphy
"I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake."

Honesty

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Graeme Murphy
"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

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Graeme Murphy
"But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens."

Journey

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Graeme Murphy
"If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't."

People

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Graeme Murphy
"We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with."

Nature

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Graeme Murphy
"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."

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