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I would be ready to take over tomorrow. But first of all, all fat and lazy members of the troupe would have to be thrown out.

— Rudolf Nureyev

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Everyone would like to be the greatest, but God cannot bestow that honor on everyone.

It is always thought that he gave more than what he received, but to give something, you must have something inside.

Musicals gave the U.S. an ethnic culture that undoubtedly influenced ballet.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

You live because you dance, you dance as long as you live.

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