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George Balanchine

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

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Donna Grant

"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."

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Donna Grant

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

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Donna Grant

"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

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Donna Grant

"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."

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George Balanchine
"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."

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

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George Balanchine
"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."

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

Ballet

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

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