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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that."
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