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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more.
By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.
There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.
I look at every girl, and I think, 'You're going to change my life.' I'm very down to earth at heart.
You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch Fred Astaire. He's unique.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'
I don't know anyone who's 100 percent pure - nor do I have any interest in portraying anyone like that.
From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.
I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?
I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.
There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.
I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill.
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.
As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.
The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.
I don't even want to discuss Flashdance. I'm no critic, but that's an interesting phenomenon, that picture.
I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.
From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.
I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.
Authenticity is the most important thing. You have to know where it all comes from, study who pioneered it.
I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.