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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."
"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."
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
Explore more quotes by Robert Caro
"You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world."
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
"I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless."
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."
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