"Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our…" — Agnes de Mille

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• The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
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• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the… — George Balanchine
• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
• I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• The more injuries you get, the smarter you get. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
• I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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