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"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."
"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."
"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
"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."
"As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life."
"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years."
"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."
"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life."
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