Some are less giving, others are more reticent and you actually have to create for them. Others have within them the next step.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.

Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

We don't have all the answers. A few months ago, that would have driven me crazy. Now I know sometimes you have to just take life for what it is instead of worrying about what might happen.

Regular, modest failures are actually essential to many forms of resilience.

My WHY is always greater than my SLEEP.

If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Silence, beautiful voice.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.

We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.