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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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"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible."
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"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."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted."
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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
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"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
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"In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better."
Men

"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
Dance

"God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do."
God

"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."
Ballet

"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener."
Ballet
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