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"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms."
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"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."

"Dance like no one is watching, love like you have never been hurt."

"I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."

"No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone."
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"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."

"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."
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