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John Guare

"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive."

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"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive."

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"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
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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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"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"
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"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
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"And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present."
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"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that."
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"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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