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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
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"I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater."
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"The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener."
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"Classical ballet will never die."
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"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."
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"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child."
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"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
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"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
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"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
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"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
Life
"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
Life
"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."
Dance
"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
Time
"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
Attention
"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"
God
"So it takes years to make a solid company."
Company
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
Dance
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
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"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
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