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- More often than not I've found, a rut is a consequence of sticking to tried and tested methods that don't take into account how you…
- Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything…
- It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of…
- We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.
- Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the…
- In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make…
- I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the…
- You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.
- I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
- In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
- Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.
- Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not…
- I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones…
- I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
- 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…
- Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it,…
- The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
- Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.
- When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see…
- Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.
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