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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."
"Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then."
"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."
"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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