It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

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.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.