Dancing is my obsession. My life.

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To walk across the street is a risk.

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

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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.

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Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

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

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Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

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