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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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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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"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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"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
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"I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment."
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"I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition."
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"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"
History
"Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism."
Business
"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."
Music
"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
Art
"All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs."
Home
"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
Ballet
"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
Ballet
"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
People
"And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present."
Life
"People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do."
People
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