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"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."
Nation
"Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage."
Audience
"The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15."
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."
Beauty
"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."
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."
Power
"Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery."
Mystery
"I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet."
Expertise
"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
Ballet
"The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage."
Music
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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
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"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."
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"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."
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"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."
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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."
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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."
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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
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