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.

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.

Were such things here as we do speak about?Or have we eaten on the insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner?

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.

I don't flaunt my money. I like to stay at nice hotels but I'm not a flashy chick. I haven't got much jewellery or anything.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

I'm definitely a guy that's done a lot of stupid s--- too. It happens.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.