You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

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I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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