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 think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

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.

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

If you want to change the world, learn to change yourself first.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

...the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him than what it has denied.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate