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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
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"I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case."
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"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."
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"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
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"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."
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"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."
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"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"
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"And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present."
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"The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force."
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"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
Comedy
"I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes."
Money
"People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do."
People
"All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs."
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"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
People
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
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"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that."
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