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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."
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"I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."
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"I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."
Life

"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
Office

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."
Mother

"I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is."
Work

"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."
Success

"Working is living to me."
Living

"It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people."
Work

"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."
Friendship

"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."
People

"It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company."
Dance
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