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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
"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."
"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
Explore more quotes by Robert Caro
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life."
"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."
"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."
"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
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