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"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
"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."
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
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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."
"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."
"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned."
"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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