Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.
The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
Dancers are allowed, indeed encouraged, to remain children forever.
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.
To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion. . . everything slides off. . . It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.