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- The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy…
- Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his…
- I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can…
- The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one…
- A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to…
- 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…
- The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing.
- 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,…
- 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…
- I think that probably the moments of discovery do come from a place that is not totally organized. Order is something that we already know…
- What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
- Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
- I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was…
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