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Quotes by Dancer
"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains."
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"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us."
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"There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company."
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"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
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"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."
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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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"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."
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"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
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"I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."
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"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."
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"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other."
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"Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form."
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"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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"Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
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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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"By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation."
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"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
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"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
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"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."
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"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."
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"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."
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"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."
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"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success."
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"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea."
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"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration."
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"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."
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"I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level."
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"'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years."
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"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
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"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."
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"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not."
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