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This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid.
Art is an investigation.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
I do at least 75 push-ups a day.
Creativity is an act of defiance.
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
Concentrate: you can't have it all.
I see dance as glue for a community.
Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.
You double your intensity with skill.
Kids should be encouraged to compete.
I do everything I know how in a dance.
In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
A dancer's life is all about repetition.
Our guys have a vision of something bigger.
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
You either entertain an audience or you don't.
The more you know, the better you can imagine.
A commission is an invitation to fall in love.
Art is running away without ever leaving home.
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
In the end all collaborations are love stories.
Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.
I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.
I am still pushing the edge of what my body can do.
Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
Limits are a secret blessing, and bounty can be a curse.
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing.
I understand things that are American, for better or worse.
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.
Every dance I make is a dive into this well of ancient memory.
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
Broadway has some very tight expectations as to what a show is.
It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can.
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
