"God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do..."

-- George Balanchine

#Dance Quotes #Dancer Quotes #Stealing Quotes

“I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.”
“Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again.”
“If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!”
“Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.”
“Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.”
“For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.”
“I had a lot of fun [on The Voice] and I learned a whole lot about reality TV, for one, and how they kind of use the artists as characters to make a hit TV show.”
“At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.”

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