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"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
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"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."
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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
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"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."
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"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
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"I wanted to be a ballet teacher."
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"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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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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"The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible."
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"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
Leadership
"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
Ballet
"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."
Experience
"Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work."
Work
"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that."
Endurance
"I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet."
Expertise
"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives."
Life
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
Music
"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
Beauty
"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience."
Experience
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