"You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder."
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"Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place."
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"Pity is a corroding thing."
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"How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world."
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"One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian."
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"You don't pick dance. Dance picks you."
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