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"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."


"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."


"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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