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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."

"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."

"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

"To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing."

"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."

"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."
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