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

"How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light."

"Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way."

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

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

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

"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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