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

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Asa Don Brown

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

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"But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge."

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Asa Don Brown

"He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp."

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"The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"Having second thoughts? Puck's voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. "I thought we put this behind us for now."Never, I said, matching his stare. "I can't ever take it back, Goodfellow. I'm still going to kill you. I swore to her I would. Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. "One day, I said softly. "One day you'll look up, and I'll be there. That's the only ending for us. Don't ever forget."

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Asa Don Brown

"I feel sorry and for the both characters the drama for the girl, which was unknown was one very big, for the father who knows what has happened to him... I try to explore him little deeper, but so far to go in the darker without a light...!?"

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Asa Don Brown

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

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"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."
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"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."
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"It's not a company of exponents of my style."
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"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."
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"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."
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"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage."
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"And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary."
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"Dance is so joyous."
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"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
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"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."
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