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"I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand."
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"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance."
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"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
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"Love is a dance."
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"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."
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"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."
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"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
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"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift."
Life
"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot."
History
"The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing."
Dance
"I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving."
Work
"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't."
Art
"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment."
Education
"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."
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