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Quotes by Dancer
"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
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"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."
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"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
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"Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options."
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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!"
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"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
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"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."
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"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
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"I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography."
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"To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success."
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"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."
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"I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something."
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"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."
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"Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great."
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"I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching."
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"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."
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"The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time."
Time,
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"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."
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"The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times."
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"Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"
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"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
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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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"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
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