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title: "15 City Ballet Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/all-the-new-york-city-ballet-does-is-hit-beautiful-home-runs/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-helen-bowers/before-founding-ballet-beautiful-i-was-a-ballerina-with-the-new-york/)

[Mary Helen Bowers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-helen-bowers/)

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> [Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/does-the-new-york-city-ballet-affect-other-places-yeah-it-lets-people/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/and-what-would-be-great-numbers-in-a-broadway-show-are-now-on-stage/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/city-ballet-remains-a-great-company-in-perpetual-artistic-crisis/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

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> [However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/however-the-moral-center-of-new-york-city-i-believe-is-the-new-york/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/and-it-is-always-easter-sunday-at-the-new-york-city-ballet-it-is/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-peck/i-love-seeing-new-york-city-ballet-from-the-fourth-ring-just-seeing/)

[Justin Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-peck/)

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> [I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/i-think-that-every-year-that-the-new-york-city-ballet-is-alive-is/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-peck/there-is-something-about-dior-that-reminds-me-of-new-york-city-ballet/)

[Justin Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-peck/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14d/justin-peck-11843_art_there-is-something-about-dior-that-remin_1170022.jpg)

> [The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-guare/the-new-york-city-ballet-is-always-about-the-realm-of-possibilities/)

[John Guare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-guare/)

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> [City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/city-ballet-has-to-develop-choreographers-of-stature-and-a-new/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

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> [The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-caro/the-new-york-city-ballet-is-obviously-speaking-to-a-whole-new/)

[Robert Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-caro/)

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> [Look at where I lived! Four blocks from Lincoln Center. I used to play in the fountain. And then I started taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-paulus/look-at-where-i-lived-four-blocks-from-lincoln-center-i-used-to-play/)

[Diane Paulus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-paulus/)

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> [Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gottlieb/ballet-in-september-used-to-be-dead-as-a-dodo-now-with-city-ballet-s/)

[Robert Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gottlieb/)

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## Top authors on City Ballet

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-akira-kurosawa-10082.jpg) John Guare 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/city-ballet/john-guare/)

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