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In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. (Verdon Gwen)
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. (Verdon Gwen)
No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. (Verdon Gwen)
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. (Verdon Gwen)
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. (Verdon Gwen)
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. (Verdon Gwen)
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms. (Verdon Gwen)
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. (Verdon Gwen)
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. (Verdon Gwen)
One is born to be a great dancer. (Verdon Gwen)
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. (Verdon Gwen)
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him. (Verdon Gwen)
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. (Verdon Gwen)
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. (Verdon Gwen)
Dancing is my obsession. My life. (Verdon Gwen)
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. (Verdon Gwen)
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. (Verdon Gwen)
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. (Verdon Gwen)
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. (Verdon Gwen)
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company. (Verdon Gwen)
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. (Verdon Gwen)
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