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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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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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"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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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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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 of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
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"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
"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
"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
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