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Quotes by Dancer
"The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend."
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"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."
17
"God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do."
God,
17
"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"
16
"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."
16
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
16
"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."
16
"Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?"
16
"I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance."
16
"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward."
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"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."
16
"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."
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"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."
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"I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives."
15
"I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer."
15
"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
15
"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
15
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
15
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible."
15
"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"
15
"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."
15
"It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience."
15
"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."
15
"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."
15
"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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