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 I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn`t mean I haven`t wanted it to be excellent. In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn`t afford to pay them.
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I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
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I don`t think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that`s where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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I`m not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn`t.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn`t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it`s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
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The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you`re going to pay for it personally.
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I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don`t really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.
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I think that anyone who`s pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It`s a luxury.
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Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it`s one place you can process them.
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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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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
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There`s this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
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The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it`s simply because I wasn`t that committed to geometry.
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That`s a great gift.
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I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There`s an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
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The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I`m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
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I don`t mean this, but I`m going to say it anyway. I don`t really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
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With each piece I`ve completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It`s like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can`t do any better with the dances.
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