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"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."

"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"

"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."

"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."

"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."

"It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company."

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."
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