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Robert Caro Quotes: Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
         

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.


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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.



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The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15



The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations



Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.



I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.



I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.





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